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 67
... role models , albeit those that , according to contemporary morals , were not available for honest women . It is precisely the devious concept of honesty that is scrutinized here : two women - stereotypically left with the choice ...
... role models , albeit those that , according to contemporary morals , were not available for honest women . It is precisely the devious concept of honesty that is scrutinized here : two women - stereotypically left with the choice ...
الصفحة 75
... role , but in which the figure of the pater familias loomed larger than life : Every Moment of her Life brings me ... roles the gen- ders were to play . Given the low price at which they sold , a measure that was intended to broaden ...
... role , but in which the figure of the pater familias loomed larger than life : Every Moment of her Life brings me ... roles the gen- ders were to play . Given the low price at which they sold , a measure that was intended to broaden ...
الصفحة 102
... role as suppliant does not yet come easy : she needs further instructions in submission . That is why her brother - complacently , magnanimously— grants his pardon only on certain conditions . He introduces a notion of womanhood that ...
... role as suppliant does not yet come easy : she needs further instructions in submission . That is why her brother - complacently , magnanimously— grants his pardon only on certain conditions . He introduces a notion of womanhood that ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
What is a Wife? | 37 |
What pleasant Lives Women lead in England | 71 |
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