Theatre and culture in early modern England, 1650-1737 : from Leviathan to Licensing Act

Folger bibliographic ID: 245491
Folger call number: PR698.S46 T47 2010
Folger holdings ID: 312221
Accession Number: No case or acc. number present

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction / Catie Gill -- What do the servants know? / Paddy Lyons -- Flinging the book away: books, reading and gender on the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson -- Coffee-houses and Restoration drama / Juan A. Prieto-Pablos -- Sex and tyranny revisited: Waller's The maid's tragedy and Rochester's Valentinian / Sandra Clark -- Sex, tyranny and the problem of allegiance: political drama during the Restoration / Warren Chernaik -- The adaptation of seventeenth-century Spanish drama to the English stage during the Restoration period / Jorge Braga Riera -- The female wits: women writers at work / Jane Milling -- "Jilting jades"? perceptions of female playgoers in the Restoration, 1660-1700 / Fiona Ritchie -- Revolution and the moral reform of the stage: the case of Durfey's The marriage-hater matched (1692) / María José Mora and Manuel J. Gómez-Lara

Extended title: Theatre and culture in early modern England, 1650-1737 : from Leviathan to Licensing Act / edited by Catie Gill

English drama Literature and society Theater and society Social history in literature Social change in literature

associated with: Gill, Catie