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<p>In <i>Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage<b>,</b></i> Cynthia Lowenthal explores identity—especially masculinity and femininity, English and “foreign,” middle-class and aristocratic—as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the late-seventeenth-century British stage. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways the theatre contributed to new and often shifting early modern definitions of the boundaries of nation, status, and gender.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The first portion of the book focuses on the playwrights’ presentations of idealized men and the comic ridicule of male bodies and behaviors that fall short of the ideal. Of special interest are those moments when playwrights use stereotypes of national character, particularly the Spaniards and Turks, as examples of the worst in male behavior, judgments that are always inflected with elements of class or status inconsistency.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The second portion of Lowenthal’s discussion focuses on playwrights’ attempts to redefine the idealized woman. Lowenthal investigates the ways that an extratheatrical discourse surrounding the actresses, one that essentialized them as sexual bodies demanding scrutin

Author

Lowenthal, Cynthia

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809324620

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Drama, History