Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel; social history; and political economy; the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional; material; literary; and cultural site has received little critical attention. The essays in this volume; spanning the period from the Restoration to Regency; address these forgotten maternal narratives; focusing on: the representation of motherhood as the defining female role; the interplay between an actressrsquo;s celebrity persona and her chosen roles; the performative balance between the cults of maternity and that of the ldquo;passionaterdquo; actress; and tensions between sex and maternity and/or maternity and public authority. In examining the overlaps and disconnections between representations and realities of maternity in the long eighteenth century; and by looking at written; received; visual; and performed records of motherhood; Stage Mothers makes an important contribution to debates central to eighteenth-century cultural history.
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