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The Enchanted Isle Dryden & D'avenant - Coggle Diagram
The Enchanted Isle Dryden & D'avenant
Immodesty & Profaneness
addition of women to playhouses added to moral skepticism
"their smuttiness of expression, their swearing, Profaneness, and lewd application of scripture-" Collier, Page 537
"Obscenity in any company is a rustic, uncreditable talent, but among women 'tis particularly rude." Collier, Page 537
"Do women leave all the regards to decency and conscience behind them when they come to the playhouse?" Collier, Page 537
New stage features
private boxes in audience
sex workers often in playhouse
moving slates with backgrounds
more far away and detatched from actors & now actresses
better special effects
all to add to the spectacle of the play
Actresses playing boys
clothes are more revealing
Enchanted Isle Prolouge implies sex
"All you shall see is perfect man. Or if your fancy will be farther led, to find her woman, it must be a bed."
Hippolito
"Women! I've never heard of them before, what are women like?" Act II
Actresses
women on stage not just men, borderline sex work
objectification
Charles II is party king
says yes to actresses and new playhouses
On the English stage now that they have a new king