 | Character''s Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage Subjects: English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Characters and characteristics in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Group identity in literature; Literary form; "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 Lisa A. Freeman teaches English at University of Illinois at Chicago. |
