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How to Represent Female Identity on the Restoration Stage: Actresses (Self) Fashioning

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González R. S., Martínez-García L.
International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
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2014
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vol. 16
97-110
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Despite the shifting ideologies of gender of the seventeenth century, the arrival of the first actresses caused deep social anxiety: theatre gave women a voice to air grievances and to contest, through their own bodies, traditional gender roles. This paper studies two of the best-known actresses, Nell Gwyn and Anne Bracegirdle, and the different public personae they created to negotiate their presence in this all-male world. In spite of their differing strategies, both women gained fame and profit in the male-dominated theatrical marketplace, confirming them as the ultimate “gender benders,” who appropriated the male role of family’s supporter and bread-winner
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