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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... reader . Two related , if often contentious theoretical approaches allow such a reading : the pivotal role of gender , effectively stressed for more than two decades by feminist and gender criti- cism , and a deconstruction of the ...
... reader . Two related , if often contentious theoretical approaches allow such a reading : the pivotal role of gender , effectively stressed for more than two decades by feminist and gender criti- cism , and a deconstruction of the ...
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... reading of Laura , as excess appetite , in the Jonsonian sense , is checked and pun- ished . 14 Yet even this is done with tongue in cheek , since a substitute for the right man is offered , and since the wrong man , who is incidentally ...
... reading of Laura , as excess appetite , in the Jonsonian sense , is checked and pun- ished . 14 Yet even this is done with tongue in cheek , since a substitute for the right man is offered , and since the wrong man , who is incidentally ...
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... Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth - Century English Theater promised " a re - storying . . . of Restoration and ... reading of plays by Behn and Centlivre ; not only because the first two major fe- male dramatists clearly help to ...
... Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth - Century English Theater promised " a re - storying . . . of Restoration and ... reading of plays by Behn and Centlivre ; not only because the first two major fe- male dramatists clearly help to ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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