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Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber

Elaine M. McGirr

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Description:This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly partial, exposing even as they paper over gaps and biases in the archive while reflecting back modern desires and methodologies. The Colley Cibber everybody knows has been variously constructed through the rise of English literature as both a cultural enterprise and an academic discipline, a process which made Shakespeare the nation s poet and canonised Cibber s enemies Pope and Fielding; theatre history s narrative of the birth of naturalism; and the reclamation and celebration of Charlotte Charke by women s literary history. Each of these stories requires a Colley Cibber to be its butt, antithesis, and/or bete noir. This monograph challenges these partial histories and returns the theatre manager, playwright, poet laureate and bon viveur to the centre of eighteenth-century culture and cultural studies."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber. To get started finding Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly partial, exposing even as they paper over gaps and biases in the archive while reflecting back modern desires and methodologies. The Colley Cibber everybody knows has been variously constructed through the rise of English literature as both a cultural enterprise and an academic discipline, a process which made Shakespeare the nation s poet and canonised Cibber s enemies Pope and Fielding; theatre history s narrative of the birth of naturalism; and the reclamation and celebration of Charlotte Charke by women s literary history. Each of these stories requires a Colley Cibber to be its butt, antithesis, and/or bete noir. This monograph challenges these partial histories and returns the theatre manager, playwright, poet laureate and bon viveur to the centre of eighteenth-century culture and cultural studies."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber. To get started finding Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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