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Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater - Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print (Paperback)
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Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater - Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print (Paperback)
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Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents,
dramatic prologues and epilogues - players' comic, poetic bids for
the audience's 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 actresses 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 epilogues enriches
Restoration theater scholarship.
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