Character's Theater Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage Lisa A. Freeman "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. . . . This is perhaps the most important new book on eighteenth-century theater."--Albion If the...
Character's Theater Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage Lisa A. Freeman "A well-researched book, which draws on some interestin...
Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present-day America provide us with occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of power and political authority. In studies of William Prynne's Histrio-mastix (1633), Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), John Home's Douglas (1757), the burning of the theater at Richmond (1811), and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in National...
Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English R...
