Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Playing Women
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 4743
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9780230298330
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book embodies ten years of research, building on an initial four years of PhD research. Post PhD (2007) Brooks undertook additional archival research, including at the Folger supported by a BA small grant, and Royal Archives, Windsor. This led to substantial additions including of an entirely new chapter on cross-dressing. In total, Brooks worked at seven major archives and consulted thousands of primary sources in addition to extensive interdisciplinary secondary scholarship: most prominently in theatre history, gender and women’s studies, social and economic history, and literary studies. The result is a socio-cultural analysis of women in theatre from 1710-1810.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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