03699nam 2200817Ia 450 991081617660332120200520144314.01-351-88012-81-351-88013-61-315-23646-X1-282-89219-397866128921960-7546-9944-710.4324/9781315236469 (CKB)2670000000054379(EBL)605141(OCoLC)689997328(SSID)ssj0000443232(PQKBManifestationID)11262529(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443232(PQKBWorkID)10455134(PQKB)11734732(MiAaPQ)EBC605141(Au-PeEL)EBL605141(CaPaEBR)ebr10428163(CaONFJC)MIL289219(OCoLC)980285597(PPN)169548813(OCoLC)542263674(FINmELB)ELB154310(EXLCZ)99267000000005437920100304d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheatre and culture in early modern England, 1650-1737 from Leviathan to Licensing Act /edited by Catie Gill1st ed.Farnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate20101 online resource (191 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4094-0057-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1 What Do the Servants Know?; 2 Flinging the Book Away; 3 Coffee-houses and Restoration Drama; 4 Sex and Tyranny Revisited; 5 Sex, Tyranny, and the Problem of Allegiance; 6 The Adaptation of Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama; 7 The Female Wits; 8 'Jilting Jades'? Perceptions of Female Playgoers; 9 Revolution and the Moral Reform of the Stage; Works Cited; IndexFramed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century drama. Paying special attention to literary innovation and sociopolitical changes, this book is a valuable tool for scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance, providing groundwork for future research and investigation.English dramaRestoration, 1660-1700History and criticismEnglish drama18th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyEnglandHistory17th centuryLiterature and societyEnglandHistory18th centuryTheater and societyEnglandHistory17th centuryTheater and societyEnglandHistory18th centurySocial history in literatureSocial change in literatureEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryTheater and societyHistoryTheater and societyHistorySocial history in literature.Social change in literature.822/.4093552Gill Catie1699070MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816176603321Theatre and culture in early modern England, 1650-17374081032UNINA