Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London

Mark S. (Australian National University, Canberra) Dawson

Cambridge University Press, 2005

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The book examines what it meant to be a member of the English social elite, the gentry, during the early modern era. It does so by asking how gentility was portrayed through plays at London's theatres (1660–1725). Mark Dawson revises several of social history's conclusions about the gentry.

ISBN-13
9780521848091
ISBN-10
0521848091
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
Publication date
2005-06-17
Pages
318
Dimensions
160x234x28
Weight
630