Not Mere Beauties: Women on the Restoration Stage

Elaine McGirr

Not Mere Beauties: Women on the Restoration Stage

Elaine McGirr

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Abstract

Demonstrates how early actresses shaped the development of English drama by providing new bodies, new voices, and new verisimilitude to performance. Case studies of Nell Gwyn, Anne Oldfield and Susannah Cibber map onto literary histories of Restoration comedy, comedies of (fine) manners, and she-tragedy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Eighteenth Century Drama
Subtitle of host publication	Censorship, Society and the Stage
Publisher	Adam Matthew
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

theatre history
feminism

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Cite this

@inbook{55675990a4124e98a86fbca1a84d4deb,

title = "Not Mere Beauties: Women on the Restoration Stage",

abstract = "Demonstrates how early actresses shaped the development of English drama by providing new bodies, new voices, and new verisimilitude to performance. Case studies of Nell Gwyn, Anne Oldfield and Susannah Cibber map onto literary histories of Restoration comedy, comedies of (fine) manners, and she-tragedy.",

keywords = "theatre history, feminism",

author = "Elaine McGirr",

year = "2016",

language = "English",

booktitle = "Eighteenth Century Drama",

publisher = "Adam Matthew",

}

TY - CHAP

T1 - Not Mere Beauties: Women on the Restoration Stage

AU - McGirr, Elaine

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Demonstrates how early actresses shaped the development of English drama by providing new bodies, new voices, and new verisimilitude to performance. Case studies of Nell Gwyn, Anne Oldfield and Susannah Cibber map onto literary histories of Restoration comedy, comedies of (fine) manners, and she-tragedy.

AB - Demonstrates how early actresses shaped the development of English drama by providing new bodies, new voices, and new verisimilitude to performance. Case studies of Nell Gwyn, Anne Oldfield and Susannah Cibber map onto literary histories of Restoration comedy, comedies of (fine) manners, and she-tragedy.

KW - theatre history

KW - feminism

M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

BT - Eighteenth Century Drama

PB - Adam Matthew

ER -