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The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama 1660-1700 Hardcover - 1989
by David Roberts
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- Title The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama 1660-1700
- Author David Roberts
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Don Mills, ON, Canada
- Date 1989
- ISBN 9780198117438 / 0198117434
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.88 x 5.63 x 0.69 in (22.56 x 14.30 x 1.75 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, Feminism in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88022602
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.409
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The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama, 1660-1700
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Cloth, 188 pages; 23 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Top edge, endpapers & DJ flaps lightly soiled. Age toning. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Dust jacket, with a sunned spine, protected in a mylar cover. "This is the first in-depth study of a female audience that shows how and why women went to the theater in Restoration England. Robert challenges the assumption that a 'ladies' faction' played an important part in encouraging the playhouses to present a more moral, less bawdy or 'satirical' style of comedy, thus changing the course of English drama. He shows that there is no evidence of this faction, and that 'sentimental' comedies really did cater to the interest of their female audience by incorporating the fashionable concern for women's rights. Drawing on many sources, including the life of Elizabeth Pepys, the book investigates just who these 'ladies' were, what determined their theater-going, how often…
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