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Gentility and the comic theatre of late Stuart London

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"The book examines how claims of gentility were staged in London's theatres (c. 1660-1725). Employing a rich assembly of sources, comedies with their cits and fops, periodicals, correspondence of theatre patrons and polemic from its detractors, Mark S. Dawson revises …

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"The book examines how claims of gentility were staged in London's theatres (c. 1660-1725). Employing a rich assembly of sources, comedies with their cits and fops, periodicals, correspondence of theatre patrons and polemic from its detractors, Mark S. Dawson revises several of social history's conclusions about the gentry and offers new interpretations to students of late Stuart drama."--BOOK JACKET.

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""The book examines how claims of gentility were staged in London's theatres (c. 1660-1725). Employing a rich assembly of sources, comedies with their cits and fops, periodicals, correspondence of theatre …"

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