Character's Theater : : Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage / / Lisa A. Freeman.
If the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the world? In Character's Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to test recent critical discussion of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Much current work, she observes, focuses on the concept of theatricality as both the...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Prologue -- Chapter One. Staged Identities -- Chapter Two. Plays About Plays -- Chapter Three. Tragedy's Tragic Flaw -- Chapter Four. Constituting Parodies of Identity -- Chapter Five. Sentimental Comedy: Or, The Comedy of Good Breeding -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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