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GENTILITY and The COMIC THEATRE of Late Stuart London by Dawson 2005 Cambridge
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Product Type
- Textbook
- Educational Level
- College
- Subject
- Performing Arts
- ISBN
- 9780521848091
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521848091
ISBN-13
9780521848091
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43761073
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
318 Pages
Publication Name
Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Theater / General, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Series
Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-040023
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This is a powerful, intricatly argued cultural history...the book brilliantly shows the importance of gentility in theatrical discourses, ...a fine book that should become required reading for historians and literary critics alike." <br/<David M. Turner, American Historical Review, "...this book has much merit. Its analysis of the experience of theater going is very good indeed...." <br/< - H-Albion, Brian Weiser, Department of History, Metropolitan State College of Denver, "This is a powerful, intricatly argued cultural history...the book brilliantly shows the importance of gentility in theatrical discourses, ...a fine book that should become required reading for historians and literary critics alike." David M. Turner, American Historical Review, "...this book has much merit. Its analysis of the experience of theater going is very good indeed...." - H-Albion, Brian Weiser, Department of History, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Series Volume Number
Series Number 5
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
822/.0523093552
Table Of Content
Part I. Gentility and Power: 1. The citizen cuckold and the London repertoire; 2. Confronting ambiguities of genteel birth and city wealth; 3. Genteel authority and the virtue of commerce; Part II. The Social Microcosm of London's Playhouses: 4. Stratifying the playhouse; 5. Excluding the riff-raff; 6. Profiles of the genteel and rich; Part III. Gentility as Culture: 7. The fop as social upstart; 8. Suspect sexuality and the fop; 9. Succession crises and the politics of foppery; Part IV. Managing the Theatre's Social Discourse: 10. Society and the Collier controversy; 11. Caught in the act: promiscuous players and blushing spectators; 12. Rival claims to a genteel authorship.
Synopsis
Where Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman? Mark Dawson's approach to this riddle is not to study the lives of those said to belong to early modern England's gentry. He suggests we remain skeptical of all answers to this question and consider what was at stake whenever it was posed. We should conceive of gentility as a mutable process of social delineation. Gentility was a matter of power and language; cultural definition and social domination. Neither consistently defined nor applied to particular social groups, gentility was about identifying society's elite. The book examines how gentility was portrayed through plays at London's theatres (1660 1725). Employing a rich assembly of sources, comedies with their cits and fops, periodicals, correspondence of theatre patrons and polemic from its detractors, Dawson revises several of social history's conclusions about the gentry and offers new interpretations to students of late Stuart drama.", Where Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman? Mark Dawson's approach to this riddle is not to study the lives of those said to belong to early modern England's gentry. He suggests we remain skeptical of all answers to this question and consider what was at stake whenever it was posed. We should conceive of gentility as a mutable process of social delineation. Gentility was a matter of power and language; cultural definition and social domination. Neither consistently defined nor applied to particular social groups, gentility was about identifying society's elite. The book examines how gentility was portrayed through plays at London's theatres (1660-1725). Employing a rich assembly of sources, comedies with their cits and fops, periodicals, correspondence of theatre patrons and polemic from its detractors, Dawson revises several of social history's conclusions about the gentry and offers new interpretations to students of late Stuart drama., The book examines what it meant to be a member of the English social elite, the gentry, during the early modern era. It does so by asking how gentility was portrayed through plays at London's theatres (1660-1725). Mark Dawson revises several of social history's conclusions about the gentry.
LC Classification Number
PR698.C6 D39 2005
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