Treading the bawds : actresses and playwrights on the late-Stuart stage / / Gilli Bush-Bailey
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| Autore: |
Bush-Bailey Gilli
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| Titolo: |
Treading the bawds : actresses and playwrights on the late-Stuart stage / / Gilli Bush-Bailey
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester [U.K.] ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
| New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women in the theater - England - History - 17th century |
| Women in the theater - England - History - 18th century | |
| English drama - Restoration, 1660-1700 - History and criticism | |
| English drama - 18th century - History and criticism | |
| English drama - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| Theater - England - History - 17th century | |
| Theater - England - History - 18th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Anne Bracegirdle |
| Aphra Behn | |
| Ariadne | |
| Elizabeth Barry | |
| Mary Pix | |
| William Congreve | |
| business of theatre | |
| female playwright | |
| history of women | |
| playhouse | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Background -- pt. 2. The players' company at Lincoln's Inn Fields. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, 'Treading the bawds' analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player's co-operative. Bush-Bailey offers a fresh approach to the history of women, seeing their neglected plays in the context of performance. By combining detailed analysis of selected plays within the broader context of a playhouse managed by |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Treading the bawds |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-640-0 |
| 1-78170-193-8 | |
| 1-84779-363-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826074803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Women, Theatre and Performance