Anglický jazyk

Partial Histories

Vydavateľstvo: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Rok vydania: 2016
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 216 x 153 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781137027184

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O knihe

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 bête 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.