Lothario's corpse : libertine drama and the long-running Restoration, 1700-1832 /

"Lothario's Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain's eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While standard theater histories emphasize libertine drama's gradual disappearance from the nation's acting reperto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gustafson, Daniel (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Series:	Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:	Libertines in literature. Libertinism in literature. English drama > 18th century > History and criticism. English drama > 19th century > History and criticism. Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. English drama. Theater and society. Great Britain. 1700-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The long-running Restoration
Corpsing Lothario
Debating Dorimant
Stuarts without end
Libertines and liberalism.