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

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Character's Theater Characters Theater Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage LISA A. FREEMAN PENN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Philadelphia Copyright © 2002 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4011 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Freeman, Lisa A. Character's theater : genre and identity on the eighteenth-century English stage I Lisa A. Freeman. p. em. ISBN 0-8122-3639-4 (cloth: alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. l. English drama-18th century-History and criticism. 2. Characters and characteristics in literature. 3. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 4. Group identity in literature. 5. Literary form. PS708.C47 F74 2002 822.50927-dc2l 2001041543 For my parents Jack and Ellen Freeman ...