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 160
... plot around Angellica Bianca exposes most fully the exploitation of women in the exchange economy , reducing them to the status of a commodity . " At the same time , the plot stresses the im- mense difficulty in representing female ...
... plot around Angellica Bianca exposes most fully the exploitation of women in the exchange economy , reducing them to the status of a commodity . " At the same time , the plot stresses the im- mense difficulty in representing female ...
الصفحة 168
... plot . It is a play in which not a single character is presented with the benign attitude of bright comedy . This bitter aspect - sufficiently clear from the two main so - called love plots — is overdone in the low - life plot , where ...
... plot . It is a play in which not a single character is presented with the benign attitude of bright comedy . This bitter aspect - sufficiently clear from the two main so - called love plots — is overdone in the low - life plot , where ...
الصفحة 170
... plot radically defies comic convention and strains discursive bound- aries to the utmost . This plot is echoed by the second main plot , when Beaumond couches his conclusive words to his fiancée in two conditional clauses , which , once ...
... plot radically defies comic convention and strains discursive bound- aries to the utmost . This plot is echoed by the second main plot , when Beaumond couches his conclusive words to his fiancée in two conditional clauses , which , once ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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