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This work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93). The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social categories (class, the family, and age). The plays reinforce the patriarchal association of femininity with the body, with spectacle, and with theatricality, while the dramatic backdrop of Venice and carnival... Read more
Introduction; I: Honest Women: Morality and Idealized Femininity; II: Off Limits: Femininity and the Stage; III: A Woman's Place: The Angel in the House; IV: Artful Women: Staging Subversion; V: Surface Mobilities: Identity, Disguise and Fashion; VI: Masculinity and Materialism: Money, Sex and Power; VII: Class Acts: The Drama of Difference; VIII: Fear of Fiction: Theatricality, Pretence and Femininity
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Maggie Gunsberg
