Sexual Suspects : Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology

How the suspect sexuality of actors and actresses shaped early modern debates about gender and sexual identity. From the Restoration through the eighteenth century, the sexuality of actors and actresses was written about in ways that stirred the public imagination. Actors were frequently suspected o...

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Autore principale: Straub, Kristina
Natura: Livre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press 2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris
Accesso online:Accès Université Orléans et IFPM 
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Edition sous un autre format:• Sexual Suspects, Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology, Kristina Straub, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023, 1 vol. (206 p.), 978-14-0080-782-6
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