{"title":"Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing Master: Aristocratic Order and Its Imitation","authors":"D. Gelineau","doi":"10.5325/rectr.34.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0060","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing Master was his least successful play, a failure usually ascribed to a lack of complexity or sophistication. But more ideological reasons may have played a part in its failure. Wycherley, a member of the gentry, wrote a satire that ruthlessly attacked his “cit” audience and what he perceived as its materialist values. Using the image of the dance as a dual symbol, he mocked that audience’s senseless aping of their social betters as a betrayal of the divine harmony that underwrote the aristocratic social order. The dance is by turns the cits’ false masquerade of meaning, then the symbol for the aristocratic order, which “dances” harmoniously within the divine will.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115776487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689–1800","authors":"Georgina Lock","doi":"10.5325/rectr.34.0127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0127","url":null,"abstract":"ture and live theatre. Works interpreted include Douglas Turner Ward’s Day of Absence, a play inspired by 1950s bus boycott images that features a sci-fi plot about a white town amid the major emergency of Black disappearance. Fleming conceptualizes “white impatience” as central to the making of whiteness and Black patience and proposes that the ephemeral, multiperceptual form of theatre “disrupt [s] the racial conventions of visual modernity” (183). Fleming’s Black Patience is a magnificent, much-needed inquiry of civil-rights-era theatrical history. Engaging in depth with scripts, letters, maps, photographs, and newspapers, Fleming rigorously works across fields of theatre history (including African American theatre), performance studies, Black studies, and theatre for social change. Fleming reminds us to center Afro-presentism—onand offstage—to unearth forms that confront Black patience and champion freedom for Black people now.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121391148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Claret-Club: Advertising, Self-Fashioning, and an Addition to the Canon of Scottish Restoration Theatre","authors":"J. Reid","doi":"10.5325/rectr.34.0085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0085","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The traditional view of theatre in Restoration Scotland is that Presbyterian disapproval all but suffocated anything akin to the revival of playwriting and playgoing witnessed south of the border. This article highlights an addition to the slim canon of seventeenth-century Scottish theatre that provides nuance to this picture. The New Claret-Club: or, The Entertainments of Jack Jolly, Tam True-Wit, Peter Prudence, Symon Scruple, and Frank Furthy (1669) was until recently unknown to the field and contains hitherto forgotten details about theatre culture in Restoration Scotland. This article argues that The New Claret-Club was written by the founder of the first commercial theatre in Scotland following the Restoration, Thomas St. Serfe (or Sydserf) in order to advertise that theatre and increase his own celebrity through self-fashioning. It then provides a full annotated edition of The New Claret-Club.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126527249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Early Plays; The Middle Period Plays; The Late Plays","authors":"J. Munns","doi":"10.5325/rectr.34.0155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122700773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emergence of a Theatrical Science of Man in France, 1660–1740","authors":"Annelle Curulla","doi":"10.5325/rectr.34.0140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116592933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mr. Turbulent: A Critical Edition","authors":"Joseph F. Stephenson","doi":"10.5325/rectr.34.0150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133664508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who’s the Dupe? A Farce","authors":"R. Ballaster","doi":"10.5325/rectr.34.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.34.0105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123239386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London","authors":"Kristina Straub","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2crj1t8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2crj1t8","url":null,"abstract":"This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the life and career of Charles Macklin (1699?-1797), one of the most important figures in the history of Covent Garden and Drury Lane. The chapters discuss Macklin's acting performances, dramatic writings, comedy, legal activities, theatre management, commercial ventures, and his consequent presence in the print and visual culture of the period. The authors examine Macklin's many activities through the seven decades of his London career through the prism of his Irish ethnicity, arguing that his sociability and multi-faceted activities offer a model of performative Enlightenment that had an understated yet sustained impact on Georgian London.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131277756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}