Gender, theatre, and the origins of criticism : from Dryden to Manley

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    • Frank, Marcie

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Gender, theatre, and the origins of criticism : from Dryden to Manley

Marcie Frank

Cambridge University Press, 2003

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. 163-172

Includes index

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内容説明

In Gender, Theatre and the Origins of Criticism, Marcie Frank explores the theoretical and literary legacy of John Dryden to a number of prominent women writers of the time. Frank examines the pre-eminence of gender, sexuality and the theatre in Dryden's critical texts that are predominantly rewritings of the work of his own literary precursors - Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and Milton. She proposes that Dryden develops a native literary tradition that is passed on as an inheritance to his heirs - Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley - as well as their male contemporaries. Frank describes the development of criticism in the transition from a court-sponsored theatrical culture to one oriented toward a consuming public, with very different attitudes to gender and sexuality. This study also sets out to trace the historical origins of certain aspects of current criticism - the practices of paraphrase, critical self-consciousness and performativity.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the critical stage
  • 1. 'Equal to ourselves': John Dryden's national literary history
  • 2. Staging criticism, staging Milton: John Dryden's The State of Innocence
  • 3. Imitating Shakespeare: gender and criticism
  • 4. The female playwright and the city lady
  • 5. Scandals of a female nature
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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