15 June 2011

Microviews for Playhouse Creatures

1.

The link is to an article that speaks about the various comedies and plays that audience may have scene during the Restoration period.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3506933


2.

The article that is linked here shows the various composers of music during the Restoration that were most commonly performed in theatres. Matthew Locke is among these composers.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/964058


3.

This link is about the various political plays performed in the Restoration.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3713916


4.

Return of Sexual Comedy.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_Wife


5.

The places of work for Nell Gwyn. Also a reflection of the diaries of Samuel Pepys about Nell Gwyn.

Source: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1259740


6.

The link is to a site with information from the diary of Samuel Pepys explaining who the character of Mrs. Betterton is.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/4034.php


7.

The article linked below shows the character, educational background, likes and dislikes of the theatre of the Earl of Rochester as well as morals of the restoration.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/27532879


8.

The following to an article that defends the lack of desire for women on the stage from the point of view of Jeremy Collier, a theatre critic after the beginning of the emergence of women on the stage.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/549884

9.

The link talks about infant mortality.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3656483


10.

Values of women in the 1660s.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/175645