How to Represent Female Identity on the Restoration Stage: Actresses (Self) Fashioning

Despite the shifting ideologies of gender of the seventeenth century, the arrival of the first actresses caused deep social anxiety: theatre gave women a voice to air grievances and to contest, through their own bodies, traditional gender roles. This paper studies two of the best-known actresses, Ne...

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Main Authors: Raquel Serrano González, Laura Martínez-García
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2014-09-01
Series:International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/international/article/view/6785