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Treading the bawds : Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Women, theatre and performancePublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [(c)2006.]Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847793638
  • 1847793630
  • 9781781701935
  • 1781701938
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN2592
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Contents:
Copyright; Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 Background; 1. In the company of women; 2. United we stand; 3. Control and influence on the Late Stuart stage; PART 2. The Players' Companyat Lincoln's Inn Fields; 4. New Moves, New Voices; 5. Competition and criticism; 6. Re-forming the stage; 7. Old stories, new histories; 8. Certainly not a conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies,?Treading the bawds? analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player?s co-operative. Bush-Bailey offers a fresh approach to the history of women, seeing their neglected plays in the context of performance. By combining detailed analysis of selected plays within the broader context of a playhouse managed by.
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Copyright; Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 Background; 1. In the company of women; 2. United we stand; 3. Control and influence on the Late Stuart stage; PART 2. The Players' Companyat Lincoln's Inn Fields; 4. New Moves, New Voices; 5. Competition and criticism; 6. Re-forming the stage; 7. Old stories, new histories; 8. Certainly not a conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies,?Treading the bawds? analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player?s co-operative. Bush-Bailey offers a fresh approach to the history of women, seeing their neglected plays in the context of performance. By combining detailed analysis of selected plays within the broader context of a playhouse managed by.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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