Prologues And Epilogues Of Restoration Theater. Gender And Comedy, Performance And Print

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Delaware Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 262 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues - players comic, poetic bids for the audiences good opinion - became essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actesses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedy - arguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epiliogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship."

ISBN: 9781611494228