Performing Silence, Performing Speech: Genre and Gender in Stuart Drama

I argue that, during the Jacobean and Caroline periods, the three dramatic forms of closet drama, masque, and commercial theatre participated in recreating and critiquing conduct manual vocabularies of speech and silenceparticularly those aimed at women. Using narratology, gender theory, and cultura...

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Main Author: Nesler, Miranda Garno
Other Authors: Leah S. Marcus
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-06052009-092233/