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Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis ... demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy.-Albion

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"A well-researched book, which draws on some interesting and lesser-known plays, such as those by neglected female playwrights." * Times Literary Supplement *
"Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis . . . demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy. . . . This is perhaps the most important new book on eighteenth-century theater." * Albion *

Characters Theater

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 22 November 2001
      ISBN-13 9780812236392
      978-0812236392
      ISBN-10 0812236394
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      Theatre studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis ... demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy.-Albion

      Trade Review
      "A well-researched book, which draws on some interesting and lesser-known plays, such as those by neglected female playwrights." * Times Literary Supplement *
      "Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis . . . demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy. . . . This is perhaps the most important new book on eighteenth-century theater." * Albion *

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