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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-3 من 42
الصفحة 53
... reason . Here Astell's enlightened voice is at its clearest . In a self - confident , at times didactic tone she admonishes both sexes to be " guided by Reason , and not by Humour or brutish Passion " ( 93 ) . It is at this point that ...
... reason . Here Astell's enlightened voice is at its clearest . In a self - confident , at times didactic tone she admonishes both sexes to be " guided by Reason , and not by Humour or brutish Passion " ( 93 ) . It is at this point that ...
الصفحة 196
... Reason's dark un- derside , a priori , Woman was ( and continues to be ) associated with irratio- nality , the senses , the body , and therefore matter itself . The privileged subject of reason , Man , on the other hand , took ( and ...
... Reason's dark un- derside , a priori , Woman was ( and continues to be ) associated with irratio- nality , the senses , the body , and therefore matter itself . The privileged subject of reason , Man , on the other hand , took ( and ...
الصفحة 249
... Reason's Disciples : Seventeenth - Century Femi- nists ( Urbana : The University of Illinois Press , 1982 ) ; Katherine Usher Henderson and Barbara F. McManus , eds . , Half Humankind : Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women ...
... Reason's Disciples : Seventeenth - Century Femi- nists ( Urbana : The University of Illinois Press , 1982 ) ; Katherine Usher Henderson and Barbara F. McManus , eds . , Half Humankind : Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women ...
المحتوى
Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
حقوق النشر | |
9 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
according active allowed Aphra Behn Astell attempt attention authority become Behn Behn's body called Cambridge Centlivre Centlivre's century character comedy comic concept construct contemporary created criticism cultural described desire discourse dramatic dramatists early modern England English equally example expression fact female Feminist figure finally gender genre hand husband ideas interest issues knowledge Lady later learning least less lines linguistic literary live London male marriage married Mary means moral nature offers once period play playwrights plot political position possible practice presented problem produced question Quoted reading reason relations remains Renaissance representation represented Restoration role scene seen sense sentimental separation sexual social society space speaking stage structured theater theory tion University Press widow wife woman women World writing young