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Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage
Cynthia Lowenthal
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Description for Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage
Hardcover. This work explores identity - especially masculinity and femininity, English and "foreign", middle-class and aristocratic - as it is enacted, idealized, deployed and redefined on the late-17th-century British stage. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
In Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, Cynthia Lowenthal explores identity—especially masculinity and femininity, English and “foreign,” middle-class and aristocratic—as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the late-seventeenth-century British stage. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways the theatre contributed to new and often shifting early modern definitions of the boundaries of nation, status, and gender. The first portion of the book focuses on the playwrights’ presentations of idealized men and the comic ridicule of male bodies and behaviors that fall short of the ideal. Of special interest are those moments when playwrights use stereotypes of national ... Read more
In Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, Cynthia Lowenthal explores identity—especially masculinity and femininity, English and “foreign,” middle-class and aristocratic—as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the late-seventeenth-century British stage. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways the theatre contributed to new and often shifting early modern definitions of the boundaries of nation, status, and gender. The first portion of the book focuses on the playwrights’ presentations of idealized men and the comic ridicule of male bodies and behaviors that fall short of the ideal. Of special interest are those moments when playwrights use stereotypes of national ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809324620
SKU
V9780809324620
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About Cynthia Lowenthal
Cynthia Lowenthal is an associate professor of Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature at Tulane University, where she is the acting dean of Newcomb College. She is author of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter.
Reviews for Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage
"Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage is a thoughtful and articulate discussion of the representation of different issues of identity within a variety of different Restoration dramas. Its great strengths are clarity of its presentation, especially its lucid prose and its intelligent readings of individual plays. The readings are fresh and appropriate." - Jean I. Marsden, author of The Re-Imagined ... Read more