Women in wartime : theatrical representations in the long eighteenth century /

Women in wartime : theatrical representations in the long eighteenth century /

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Author / Creator:	Backscheider, Paula R., author.
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xiii, 437 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Women in literature. Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women and the military -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women and war -- Great Britian -- History -- 18th century. War and theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. English drama. Theater and society. War and theater. Women and the military. Women and war. Women in literature. Women in the theater. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12667679

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ISBN:	9781421441672 1421441675 9781421441689 1421441683 9781421441696
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781421441696

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