Moral reform in comedy and culture, 1696-1747
By: by Aparna Gollapudi
Series: Performance in the long eighteenth century : studies in theatre, music, dance; Performance in the long eighteenth century
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781409417965; 9781409417972
Subjects: Politics and literature; Literature and society; English drama; Social change in literature; History and criticism; English Dramatists; Political and social views; Theater and society; Social problems in literature; Theater; English drama (Comedy); Social values in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Seeing is believing: performing reform in Colley Cibber's Love's last shift; title: Sincerity as spectacle: Susanna Centlivre's The gamester and George Farquhar's The inconstant; title: Reforming the reformer: female gaze and rake reform in Colley Cibber's The careless husband and The lady's last stake; title: Jokes and party strokes: whig ideology and wife-reform in Richard Steele's The tender husband and Charles Johnson's The masquerade; title: Horns, whores, and happy marriages: reforming jealousy in Charles Johnson's The generous husband and Benjamin Hoadly's The suspicious husband; title: Afterword.