Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Anderson, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349386936 ISBN-13: 9781349386932 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
Dewey: 372.704 |
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.71 lbs) 262 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the psychological mechanisms of humor. Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public. |