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This article attempts to answer why by uncovering the significance of the drama's title. When Mary Robinson's drama Nobody was staged in 1794 at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane it caused a near riot. By taking as my focus the tropes of corsetry and marital rape, both of which are historical artefacts that are presumed to be resolved within a postfeminist cultural context, I explore the ways that The Duchess establishes its feminist sensibility in relation to historical modes of oppression, while simultaneously obscuring the ways that women’s bodies continue to be policed and constrained in contemporary societies. I argue that this film is representative of a broader subgenre of postfeminist historical ‘chick flicks’, which, by privileging identifiably feminist characters, produces a version of feminism and feminist history that circulates in popular culture in particular ways.

***This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies on March 29, 2016, available online: *** This article seeks to investigate the deployment of feminist tropes – tropes that are used to indicate a character’s or text’s feminist credentials – in Saul Dibb’s 2008 film, The Duchess. Nevertheless, creating credible characters is possible. There can be no absolutely ' true ' interpretations of historical characters neither in literature, nor in portraiture or cinema. Author's perception of the subject shapes the image imprinted on canvass, pages of a biography, or in film. In all three, interpretation of reality plays a crucial part. Each of these is factual, because each is based on fact. Portrait and biopic can be seen as artistic forms of biography, while biography verbally creates a person's picture. The film presents a rather truthful, if not quite comprehensive, image of Georgiana. The book is an extensively researched and well-written account of Georgiana's life and times. It is shown that Georgiana's personal traits discernible on the paintings by Reynolds and Gainsborough are fully developed in A. Foreman, and the feature film The Duchess based on this book. Reynolds depicting her, a biography by British historian A. As a material for the research the works the subject of which is 18 th century English aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, are chosen, including the paintings of Th.Gainsborough and J. To reveal the interaction between the three art forms, the authors analyse the way 18 th century artists, modern biographers and film-makers represent a historical character. This is a comparative study of related forms of biography, portrait-painting and biopic.

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