Women in wartime: theatrical representations in the long eighteenth century

"During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. This book describes how playwrights and theater managers of the period discovered and created transformative theatrical and social roles for actresses and wartime women characters. Women characters came to be cen...

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1. Verfasser: Backscheider, Paula R. 1943- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:"During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. This book describes how playwrights and theater managers of the period discovered and created transformative theatrical and social roles for actresses and wartime women characters. Women characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming into deeply patriotic British subjects, and this book interprets them as entertainment and as ideological and propagandistic vehicles in times of crisis"--
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ISBN:9781421441696