Elaine M Mcgirr: 2 books
Eighteenth-Century Characters
A Guide to the Literature of the Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the eighteenth century, using characters as its starting point. Elaine M. McGirr presents contextualized readings of stock characters from canonical and popular literature, such as:
- the rake and the fop
- the country gentleman
- the...
Partial Histories
A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
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...