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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الصفحة 11
... attention of local , discontinuous , disqualified , illegitimate knowledges against the claims of a unitary body of theory which would filter , hierarchise and order them in the name of some true knowledge and some arbitrary idea of ...
... attention of local , discontinuous , disqualified , illegitimate knowledges against the claims of a unitary body of theory which would filter , hierarchise and order them in the name of some true knowledge and some arbitrary idea of ...
الصفحة 63
... attention to the social pitfalls inherent in such a union ? The play , of course , is a rewriting of George Wilkins's The Miseries of Enforced Marriage ( 1607 ) , in which " narrative closure , " the conciliatory final moment , is ...
... attention to the social pitfalls inherent in such a union ? The play , of course , is a rewriting of George Wilkins's The Miseries of Enforced Marriage ( 1607 ) , in which " narrative closure , " the conciliatory final moment , is ...
الصفحة 174
... attention . It is perhaps explained by the hero- ine of the play's subtitle , who so defies and confuses even the shifting stan- dards of womanhood familiar in Behn that bringing her to life on stage would , the author assumed , invite ...
... attention . It is perhaps explained by the hero- ine of the play's subtitle , who so defies and confuses even the shifting stan- dards of womanhood familiar in Behn that bringing her to life on stage would , the author assumed , invite ...
المحتوى
Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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