Character´s Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage
Lisa A. Freeman
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Hardback. "Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis .. demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy."-Albion Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; AN; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 245 x 31. Weight in Grams: 636.
If the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the world? In Character's Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to test recent critical discussion of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Much current work, she observes, focuses on the concept of theatricality as both the governing metaphor of social life and a primary filter of psychic perception. Hume's "theater of the mind," Adam Smith's "impartial spectator," and Diderot's "tableaux" are all invoked by theorists to describe a process whereby the private individual comes to internalize theatrical logic and apprehend the self as other. To them theatricality is a ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812236392
SKU
V9780812236392
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About Lisa A. Freeman
Lisa A. Freeman teaches English at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Reviews for Character´s Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage
"A well-researched book, which draws on some interesting and lesser-known plays, such as those by neglected female playwrights."
Times Literary Supplement
"Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis . . . demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy. . ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
"Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis . . . demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy. . ... Read more