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Bellamira: Directed by Robert Knights. With Helen Mirren, Peter Eyre, Anthony Sharp, Graham Crowden. In libertine seventeenth century England, a young woman uses her charms, wits, and guns to make a carrier for herself in the field of professional mistresses and robbers.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Robert Knights
- Helen Mirren, Peter Eyre, Anthony Sharp
In libertine seventeenth century England, a young woman uses her charms, wits, and guns to make a carrier for herself in the field of professional mistresses and robbers.
Synopsis. In libertine seventeenth century England, a young woman uses her charms, wits, and guns to make a carrier for herself in the field of professional mistresses and robbers. Recommendations....
Bellamira (1974 TV Movie) Full Cast & Crew. See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro. Directed by. Robert Knights. Writing Credits (in alphabetical order) Cast (in credits order) Produced by. Peter Duguid. ... producer. Music by. John Addison. Production Design by. Marilyn Taylor. Costume Design by. Ambren Garland. Makeup Department.
- Stage History and Reception
- Characters and Couples
- Inversion of Traditional Hierarchies in The Plot
- Criticism of Competitive Society
- The Motif of Sterility and Disease in The Play
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Ascertaining the exact number of performances of Bellamira presents some problems. It is a fact that Bellamira was performed by the United Company in the Drury Lane Theatre on 12 May 1687. Bellamira may also have been performed in the Dorset Garden Theatre. However, as it was a standard play, without fancy scenery or machinery, the Drury Lane Theat...
Merryman and Thisbe (Falstaffian drunkard meets Bellamira's confidante)Keepwell and Bellamira (Fool meets scheming heroine)Dangerfield and Bellamira (miles gloriosusis fooled by scheming heroine)Lionel and Isabella (alleged eunuch and excessive rake meets and rapes helpless ingénue)Bellamira is full of relationships and affairs, and only one couple is married on stage while more marriages are only planned for the future. However, all the marriages are doubtful as to how close they function as satiric norm(s). Traditional hierarchies and ties of interdependence are inverted. Previously unprivileged members of society dominate ...
The criticism of contemporary society in Bellamira is achieved by satire and parody. The play presents the picture of a competitive society which is largely characterised by materialistic and cynical as well as libertinistic, if not nihilistic, tendencies. The society of Bellamirais morally corrupt and profit-seeking, degenerate, cunning and violen...
In Bellamira, a profit-seeking attitude has infected every aspect of life and ruined each relationship. Materialistic motives lead to arranged marriages devoid of feelings and love. The society delineated here is an ageing society not only morally deficient but also literally diseased: Bellamira is a veteran courtesan; Merryman an elderly drunkard;...
Quarto edition of 1687, printed by D[avid] Mallet.The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley. 2 vols (London, 1776).Holger Hanowell, Sir Charles Sedley's "The Mulberry-Garden" (1668) and "Bellamira: or, The Mistress" (1687). An Old-Spelling Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Commentary(Frankfurt a.M., 2...
Vivian de Sola Pinto, Sir Charles Sedley 1639–1701: A Study in the Life and Literature of the Restoration(London, 1927).Michael Benjamin Hudnall Jr, Moral Design in the Plays of Sir Charles Sedley(University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1984).Jacqueline Pearson, The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists, 1642–1737(New York, London, and Toronto, 1988).Warren Chernaik, Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature(Cambridge, 1995).All about Movie: directors and actors, reviews and ratings, trailers, stills, backstage. In libertine seventeenth century England, a young woman uses ...
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