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Lothario's Corpse - Libertine Drama and the Long-Running Restoration, 1700-1832 (Hardcover)
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Lothario's Corpse - Libertine Drama and the Long-Running Restoration, 1700-1832 (Hardcover)
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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Lothario’s Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the
stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain’s eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries. While standard theater histories
emphasize libertine drama’s gradual disappearance from the
nation’s acting repertory following the dispersal of Stuart rule
in 1688, Daniel Gustafson traces its persistent appeal for writers
and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal
subject and the tensions of that subject with sovereign absolutism.
With its radical, absolutist characters and its scenarios of
aristocratic license, Restoration libertine drama became a critical
force with which to engage in debates about the liberty-loving
British subject’s relation to key forms of liberal power and
about the troubling allure of lawless sovereign power that lingers
at the heart of the liberal imagination. Weaving together readings
of a set of literary texts, theater anecdotes, political writings,
and performances, Gustafson illustrates how the corpse of the
Restoration stage libertine is revived in the period’s debates
about liberty, sovereign desire, and the subject’s relation to
modern forms of social control. Ultimately, Lothario’s Corpse
suggests the “long-running” nature of Restoration theatrical
culture, its revived and revised performances vital to what makes
post-1688 Britain modern. Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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