Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster

Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Studies in the Eighteenth Century

Ros Ballaster

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In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition from the novel - newly respectable and increasingly fashionable. But the story is not one of theatre's decline and the nove...

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