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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... according to the rate that young women are Educated , according to the way their Time is spent , they are destin'd to Folly and Impertinence , . . . and reproach'd for those Faults they are in a manner forc'd into " ( 118 ) . She ...
... according to the rate that young women are Educated , according to the way their Time is spent , they are destin'd to Folly and Impertinence , . . . and reproach'd for those Faults they are in a manner forc'd into " ( 118 ) . She ...
الصفحة 139
... according to the Galenic biological model , there is a potential man in every young woman , then homoerotic invest- ments become just one form of eroticism on a sexual continuum . And if , according to the same model , boys and women ...
... according to the Galenic biological model , there is a potential man in every young woman , then homoerotic invest- ments become just one form of eroticism on a sexual continuum . And if , according to the same model , boys and women ...
الصفحة 196
... According to Gallagher , " banishment is every woman's natural political condition , " but " one that allows her to be in miniature what Charles II was on a grander scale during the years of ... exile : an absolute monarch without a ...
... According to Gallagher , " banishment is every woman's natural political condition , " but " one that allows her to be in miniature what Charles II was on a grander scale during the years of ... exile : an absolute monarch without a ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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