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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The English Restoration"”.
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The Theory and Practice of Composition in the English Restoration Period
The second half of the seventeenth century was a period of considerable upheaval in English music, not only because the political instability of the time altered the way musicians were employed, but also because the era saw fundamental changes in the construction and perception of music. The most …
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Astraea Unmasked: The Desires of Aphra Behn
… character play about Aphra Behn (ca. 1640-1689), the first Englishwoman to write professionally, and is accompanied by a video of a performance of the monologue. Behn came to prominence during the English Restoration period and although best known as a playwright, she was also a prolific poet, …
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"""Fair Montague"" or ""Ill-beseeming beast"": Breeches performance on the American stage, 1800-1869"
… in gender studies, women's history and feminist theory in the 1980s and 1990s has generated a vast amount of recent material on cross-dressing. Yet, despite cross-dressing's present favor within academia, a paucity of historical analysis exists regarding perhaps the most celebrated of all …
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
… have long been used by oral historians to help their audience connect quickly and easily to their characters. One popular archetype is the trickster figure. Most frequently connected to Native American tales in contemporary literature, the archetype can be found in the mythology and folk tales …
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Restoring a Neglected Queen: Re-Examining Catherine of Braganza's Role in the Restoration Period
In her reign as Queen Consort, issues with Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) brought up questions of power between the Church and State, helped heighten anti-Catholicism, and brought up questions of exclusion years before the infamous Exclusion Crisis began. History has traditionally remembered her …