Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London

by Mark S. Dawson

Where Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman? Mark Dawson's approach to this riddle is not to study the lives of those said to belong to early modern England's gentry. He suggests we remain skeptical of all answers to this question and consider what was at stake whenever it was posed. We should conceive of gentility as a mutable process of social delineation. Gentility was a matter of power and language; cultural definition and social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521848091
• ISBN13: 9780521848091
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"