Broken Boundaries : Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama /

This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Quinsey, Katherine M., 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1996]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in the theater.
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Theater.
Sex role in literature.
Literature and society.
Gender identity in literature.
Feminist drama, English.
Feminism and literature.
English drama > Restoration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Identite sexuelle dans la litterature.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Femmes au theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Theâtre anglais > 1660-1700 (Restauration) > Histoire et critique.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Feminist drama, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Women in the theater > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
Feminism and literature > England > History > 17th century.
English drama > Restoration, 1660-1700 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Blacker than hell creates : Pix rewrites Othello / Jacqueline Pearson
  • Unmanned with thy words : regendering tragedy in Manley and Trotter / Rebecca Merrens
  • In carnival world of Adam's garden : roving and rape in Behn's Rover / Dagny Boebel
  • Closure and subversion in Behn's comedies / Peggy Thompson
  • Lady Fulbank and poet's dream in Behn's Lucky Chance / Robert A. Erickson
  • Tupping your rival's women : cit-cuckholding as class warfare in restoration comedy / J. Douglas Canfield
  • Almahide still lives : feminine will and identity in Dryden's Conquest of Granada / Katherine M. Quinsey
  • Resisting a private tyranny in two humane comedies / James E. Evans
  • Way of word : telling differences in Congreve's Way of the World / Pat Gill
  • Rape, voyeurism, and restoration stage / Jean I. Marsden
  • Reading masks : the actress and the spectatrix in restoration Shakespeare / Laura J. Rosenthal
  • Sticks and rags, bodies and brocade : essentializing discourses and the late restoration playhouse / Cynthia Lowenthal.

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