Character's Theater
Subtitle: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812236392
Subjects: Plays & playwrights; Theatre, drama; c 1700 to c 1800; History and criticism; English drama; Performing Arts; Theater - History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Characters and characteristics in literature; 18th century; Characters and characteristics; History; Literary form
First sentence: In Spectator No. 370, Richard Steele asserts the "certainty" of the slogan totus mundus agit histrionem-the whole world acts the player.