Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women

Name: Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women
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ISBN: 9780452011106

ISBN-10: 0452011108

ISBN-13: 9780452011106

Edition: N/A

Authors: Katharine M. Rogers

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"Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology - the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women - had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage. In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.95" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction


Notes to Introduction


Aphra Behn


Sir Patient Fancy (1678)


Notes to Sir Patient Fancy


Mary Griffith Pix


The Spanish Wives (1696)


Notes to The Spanish Wives


Susanna Centlivre


A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)


Notes to A Bold Stroke for a Wife


Mercy Otis Warren


The Group (1775)


Notes to The Group


Frances Burney


The Witlings (1779)


Notes to The Witlings


Hannah Cowley


The Belle's Stratagem (1780)


Notes to The Belle's Stratagem


Elizabeth Inchbald


Such Things Are (1787)


Notes to Such Things Are


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