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Autore: | Frank Marcie |
Titolo: | Gender, theatre, and the origins of criticism : from Dryden to Manley / / by Marcie Frank [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 801/.95/094109033 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Gender, Theatre, & the Origins of Criticism |
Titolo autorizzato: | Gender, theatre, and the origins of criticism |
ISBN: | 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 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910449878503321 |
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