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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... male gaze , doubled 320 years later by Lawrence Stone's com- ment that the king heard " with amusement all the scabrous details of Lady Roos's many sexual exploits , " 23 goes hand in hand with the male perspec- tive that dominated the ...
... male gaze , doubled 320 years later by Lawrence Stone's com- ment that the king heard " with amusement all the scabrous details of Lady Roos's many sexual exploits , " 23 goes hand in hand with the male perspec- tive that dominated the ...
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... male . . . ; and cases of hermaphrodit- ism tried by the courts were adjudicated according to behavioural rather ... Male and female spectators could focus their ( visual ) desire simultaneously on the fictional woman on stage and on the ...
... male . . . ; and cases of hermaphrodit- ism tried by the courts were adjudicated according to behavioural rather ... Male and female spectators could focus their ( visual ) desire simultaneously on the fictional woman on stage and on the ...
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... male context depicted here in the Forest of Arden , it is not surprising that Jaques's famous lines should present human life — the seven ages — in exclusively male terms . Although he begins with an allusion to both sexes , Jaques ...
... male context depicted here in the Forest of Arden , it is not surprising that Jaques's famous lines should present human life — the seven ages — in exclusively male terms . Although he begins with an allusion to both sexes , Jaques ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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