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UNINA9910825934503321 |
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Autore |
Frank Marcie |
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Titolo |
Gender, theatre, and the origins of criticism : from Dryden to Manley / / by Marcie Frank [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-12607-X |
1-280-15979-0 |
0-511-12095-8 |
0-511-02111-9 |
0-511-14780-5 |
0-511-33009-X |
0-511-48357-0 |
0-511-05452-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Criticism - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Criticism - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
English drama - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Sex role in literature |
Sex in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The critical stage -- "Equal to ourselves" : John Dryden's national literary history -- Staging criticism, staging Milton : John Dryden's The state of innocence -- Imitating Shakespeare : gender and criticism -- The female playwright and the city lady -- Scandals of a female nature. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Gender, Theatre and the Origins of Criticism, which was originally published in 2003, Marcie Frank explores the theoretical and literary legacy of John Dryden to a number of prominent women writers of the time. Frank examines the pre-eminence of gender, sexuality and the theatre in Dryden's critical texts that are predominantly rewritings of the work of his own literary precursors - Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and |
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Milton. She proposes that Dryden develops a native literary tradition that is passed on as an inheritance to his heirs - Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley - as well as their male contemporaries. Frank describes the development of criticism in the transition from a court-sponsored theatrical culture to one oriented toward a consuming public, with very different attitudes to gender and sexuality. This study also sets out to trace the historical origins of certain aspects of current criticism - the practices of paraphrase, critical self-consciousness and performativity. |
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