Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London

Name: Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London
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ISBN: 9780521848091

ISBN-10: 0521848091

ISBN-13: 9780521848091

Edition: 2005

Authors: Mark S. Dawson, Margot Finn, Colin Jones, Keith Wrightson

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Where Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman? Mark Dawson's approach to this riddle is not to study the lives of those said to belong to early modern England's gentry. He suggests we remain skeptical of all answers to this question and consider what was at stake whenever it was posed. We should conceive of gentility as a mutable process of social delineation. Gentility was a matter of power and language; cultural definition and social domination. Neither consistently defined nor applied to particular social groups, gentility was about identifying society's elite. The book examines how gentility was portrayed through plays at London's theatres (1660-1725). Employing a rich…

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List price: $118.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.408

Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography at the University of Oxford.Mark Dawson, who attended the University of Auckland (New Zealand), is a scholar in early modern history.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations and note on the text


Introduction: Early modern society, drama and cultural history



Gentility and power



The citizen cuckold and the London repertoire



Confronting ambiguities of genteel birth and city wealth



Genteel authority and the virtue of commerce



The social microcosm of London's playhouses



Stratifying the playhouse



Excluding the riff-raff



Profiles of the genteel and rich



Gentility as culture



The fop as social upstart?



Suspect sexuality and the fop



Succession crises and the politics of foppery



Managing the theatre's social discourse



Society and the Collier controversy



Caught in the act: promiscuous players and blushing spectators



Rival claims to a genteel authorship


Afterword: Some consequences for early modern studies


Bibliography


Index