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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... century . That success in this repression was only partial is amply demonstrated by the continuation of the debate between Mary More and Robert Whitehall in the years after the Restoration.38 The date of More's spirited essay The Womans ...
... century . That success in this repression was only partial is amply demonstrated by the continuation of the debate between Mary More and Robert Whitehall in the years after the Restoration.38 The date of More's spirited essay The Womans ...
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... century rationalism leads to the creation of plain - speaking women of sense who negotiate their marriages not so much on the basis of passion- ate love but rather of reason and a careful consideration of social and mate- rial ...
... century rationalism leads to the creation of plain - speaking women of sense who negotiate their marriages not so much on the basis of passion- ate love but rather of reason and a careful consideration of social and mate- rial ...
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... century , into the angel in the house , women were effectively exempted from the ever growing early capitalist ... century studies for more than a decade now . In 1987 , when The New Eighteenth Century challenged the notion of a ...
... century , into the angel in the house , women were effectively exempted from the ever growing early capitalist ... century studies for more than a decade now . In 1987 , when The New Eighteenth Century challenged the notion of a ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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