Theatre and culture in early modern England, 1650-1737
Subtitle: from Leviathan to Licensing Act
By: edited by Catie Gill.
Contributors: Gill, Catie.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409400578; 9780754699446
Subjects: English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century; Theater and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Theater and society -- England -- History -- 18th century; Social history in literature; Social change in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Catie Gill; title: What do the servants know? / Paddy Lyons; title: Flinging the book away: books, reading and gender on the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson; title: Coffee-houses and Restoration drama / Juan A. Prieto-Pablos; title: Sex and tyranny revisited: Waller's The maid's tragedy and Rochester's Valentinian / Sandra Clark; title: Sex, tyranny and the problem of allegiance: political drama during the Restoration / Warren Chernaik; title: The adaptation of seventeenth-century Spanish drama to the English stage during the Restoration period / Jorge Braga Riera; title: The female wits: women writers at work / Jane Milling; title: "Jilting jades"? perceptions of female playgoers in the Restoration, 1660-1700 / Fiona Ritchie; title: 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.