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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Quinsey, Katherine M., 1955- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1996]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and abo.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813147833

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