Character's Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage

Contents

Contents Introduction: A Prologue 1 l 2 Staged Identities: It's just a Question of Character Plays About Plays: An "Abstract Chronicle" 47 3 Tragedy's Tragic Flaw: National Character and Feminine Unruliness 87 4 Constituting Parodies of Identity: ll Manners, Humours, and Intrigue on the Comic Stage 145 5 Sentimental Comedy: Or, The Comedy of Good Breeding Epilogue 235 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 291 Acknowledgments 297 193 ...