The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage, 1647-1742 (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage, 1647-1742 (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Book

This volume takes a fresh look at theatre including opera in early modern Germany. Central to the study is the relationship of the stage with ideas of order or social control and how rhetoric was used against the potentially threatening others of the feminine and the Islamic.Read More

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    This book takes a fresh look at theatre - including the important new genre of opera - in early modern Germany. Taking as a starting-point the importance of rhetoric in early modern boys' education, this study considers the relationship between theatre, persuasion, and social stability, and looks at how the stage helps to develop ideas about women and non-Christian peoples which have not lost their relevance today.

  • 0198186363
  • 9780198186366
  • Sarah Colvin
  • 19 August 1999
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 344
  • illustrated edition
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