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