Characters Theater
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Characters TheaterGenre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English StageLisa A. FreemanA well-researched book, which draws on some interesting and lesser-known plays, such as those by neglected female playwrights.--Times Literary SupplementLisa Freemans excellent cultural analysis . . . demonstrates that character is a contested site in Englands attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy. . . . This is perhaps the most important new book on eighteenth-century theater.--AlbionIf the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the world? In Characters Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to test recent critical discussion of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Much current work, she observes, focuses on the concept of theatricality as both the governing metaphor of social life and a primary filter of psychic perception. Humes theater of the mind, Adam Smiths impartial spectator, and Diderots tableaux are all invoked by theorists to describe a process whereby the private individual comes to internalize theatrical logic and apprehend the self as other. To them theatricality is a critical mechanism of modern subjectivity but one that needs to be concealed if the subjects stability is to be maintained.Finding that much of this discussion about the Age of the Spectator has been conducted without reference to the play texts or actual theatrical practice, Freeman turns to drama and discovers a dynamic model of identity based on eighteenth-century conceptualizations of character. In contrast to the novel, which cultivated psychological tensions between private interiority and public show, dramatic characters in the eighteenth century experienced no private thoughts. The theater of the eighteenth century was not a theater of absorption but rather a theater of interaction, where what was monitored was not the depth of character, as in the nov
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