Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn and Suzanne CentlivreFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001 - 273 من الصفحات The previous revolutionary period in England had changed the nation enough for women's participation in all areas of society, politics, and religion to become feasible and visible. This emergent visibility gave them a chance to become actresses after 1661, and sparked their desire to offer contributions to the public stage after 1669."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Lady , you may de- part in peace fair Lady , restoring my Money , my Plate , my Jewels and my Writings , fair Lady ” ( 6:77 ) . Social ostracism and financial deprivation may have been legal practice in the seventeenth century , but ...
... Lady , you may de- part in peace fair Lady , restoring my Money , my Plate , my Jewels and my Writings , fair Lady ” ( 6:77 ) . Social ostracism and financial deprivation may have been legal practice in the seventeenth century , but ...
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... Lady Fulbank is clearly in no position to do so : legal , financial , and social constraints prevent her from being consistent . In her view , a view supported , in fact constructed , by the dominant gender discourse of her time ...
... Lady Fulbank is clearly in no position to do so : legal , financial , and social constraints prevent her from being consistent . In her view , a view supported , in fact constructed , by the dominant gender discourse of her time ...
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... Lady Fulbank . Her desire has no presence , no shape , no name of its own . It can only be produced through various ( magical , theatrical , artificial , artful ) contrivances . What remains is Lady Fulbank's considerable and urgent ...
... Lady Fulbank . Her desire has no presence , no shape , no name of its own . It can only be produced through various ( magical , theatrical , artificial , artful ) contrivances . What remains is Lady Fulbank's considerable and urgent ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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