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Languages : en
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The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre
Author: Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Author: Tanya M. CaldwellPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.
A Catalogue of Books Consisting of English Literature and Miscellanea
Author: Elihu Dwight ChurchPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-century Circle of Acquaintance
Author: Temma F. BergPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754655992
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"While most of the letter writers are unknown, four achieved prominence - the author Charlotte Lennox, the Reverend Thomas Winstanley, the navigator Charles Clerke, and the bluestocking Susannah Dobson. This book presents new perspectives on Lennox's and Winstanley's domestic lives, Clerke's ambiguous encounters with indigenous peoples, and Dobson's mysterious sexuality." "This book will appeal to eighteenth-century scholars as well as to scholars in women's and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to postcolonial, queer, and other literary theorists."--BOOK JACKET.
Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition
Author: Hilda L. SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This collection of essays includes studies of women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft and explores in depth the political ideas of the writers in their historical and intellectual context. The volume illuminates the limitations placed on women's political writings and their broader political role by the social and scholarly institutions of early modern Europe. In so doing, the authors probe legal and political restraints, distinct national and state organisation, and assumptions concerning women's proper intellectual interests. In this endeavour, the volume explores questions and subjects traditionally ignored by historians of political thought and little considered even by current feminist theorists, groups who give slight attention to women's political ideas or place women's writings within the social and intellectual structures from which they emerged and which they helped to shape.
English Stage Comedy 1490-1990
Author: Alexander LeggattPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134657897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures.
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York
Author: Robert HoeThe Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
Author: Deborah Payne FiskPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588126
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
The Poetics of Spice
Author: Timothy MortonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521026666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This 2000 book explores the literary and cultural significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature.