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 197
... contemporary boarding schools was a prevalent feature of the age , producing as it did well - merited distrust . Dancing , music , and singing , embroidery and a smat- tering of reading and writing , were the staples of such ...
... contemporary boarding schools was a prevalent feature of the age , producing as it did well - merited distrust . Dancing , music , and singing , embroidery and a smat- tering of reading and writing , were the staples of such ...
الصفحة 202
... Contemporary reactions to Astell's text took many forms . Daniel Defoe's essay and Susanna Centlivre's play should be men- tioned here , as well as a bimonthly paper published by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , and Samuel Richardson's ...
... Contemporary reactions to Astell's text took many forms . Daniel Defoe's essay and Susanna Centlivre's play should be men- tioned here , as well as a bimonthly paper published by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , and Samuel Richardson's ...
الصفحة 223
... contemporary play that has not since sunk into oblivion . " Goldsmith's accomplishment , " Thompson suggests , " is to retain the structure of paternal authority while appearing to privilege a free - market economy , a trick he ...
... contemporary play that has not since sunk into oblivion . " Goldsmith's accomplishment , " Thompson suggests , " is to retain the structure of paternal authority while appearing to privilege a free - market economy , a trick he ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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