The Meridian Anthology Of Restoration And Eighteenth Century Plays By Women

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The Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women

Author : Katharine M. Rogers
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women written by Katharine M. Rogers and published by Plume. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary edition includes seven full-length plays from the era, including an unproduced play by Frances Burney, unavailable for centuries. 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 period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit. Each of these women—Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, Susanna Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, Elizabeth Inchbald, Mary Griffith Pix, and Mercy Otis Warren—legitimized the profession of playwright for their sex. They were the genre's prolific women pioneers whose body of work has remained unmatched until the twentieth century.

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama – Second Edition

Author : Diana Solomon
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1037700015
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama – Second Edition written by Diana Solomon and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting second edition provides an exceptional range of plays edited by leading scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre. In addition to fifteen plays from the first edition are four new plays and one new afterpiece: Nathaniel Lee’s The Rival Queens, John Vanbrugh’s The Provoked Wife, David Garrick’s Miss in Her Teens, Richard Cumberland’s The West Indian, and Elizabeth Inchbald’s Such Things Are. Every play now features an engaging headnote and a fully edited dramatis personae, prologue, and epilogue. The innovative introduction plunges its readers into the experience of playgoing in London, and the edition features supplementary texts, including select actor and actress biographies and theatrical documents that provide a vivid cultural context.

Early Women Dramatists 1550–1801

Author : Margarete Rubik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349262757
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Early Women Dramatists 1550–1801 written by Margarete Rubik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text indicating the writers' precarious social and artistic position and ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex. Chapters are devoted to individual writers as well as to general developments in specific periods. The most significant plays are analysed in detail and related to the male literary canon of the time in order to stress both their originality and the existence of an, albeit tentative, female literary tradition.

Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 6

Author : Derek Hughes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040288170
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 6 by : Derek Hughes

Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 6 written by Derek Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.

Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900

Author : Jeanne Moskal
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820469270
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (692 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900 by : Jeanne Moskal

Download or read book Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900 written by Jeanne Moskal and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exuberant recovery from obscurity of scores of British women writers has prompted professors and publishers to revisit publication of women's writings. New curricular inclusion of these sometimes quirky, often passionate writers profoundly disrupts traditional pedagogical assumptions about what constitutes «literature». This book addresses this radically changed educational landscape, offering practical, proven teaching strategies for newly «recovered» writers, both in special-topics courses and in traditional teaching environments. Moreover, it addresses the institutional issues confronting feminist scholars who teach women writers in a variety of settings and the kinds of career-altering effects the decision to teach this material can have on junior and senior scholars alike. Collectively, these essays argue that teaching noncanonical women writers invigorates the curriculum as a whole, not only by introducing the voices of women writers, but by incorporating new genres, by asking new questions about readers' assumptions and aesthetic values, and by altering the power relations between teacher and student for the better.

Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama

Author : Keir Elam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351871188
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama written by Keir Elam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued. This volume, which brings together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, is a crucial step towards reclaiming the importance of women's dramatic and theatrical activities during the period. Writing for the theatre implied assuming a public role, a hazardous undertaking for women who, especially after the French Revolution, were assigned to the private, primarily domestic, sphere. As the contributors examine the covert strategies women used to become full participants in the public theatre, they shed light on the issue of women's agency, expressed both through the writing of highly politicized or ethicized drama, as in the case of Elizabeth Inchbald or Joanna Baillie, and through women's professional practice as theatre managers and stage producers, as in the case of Elizabeth Vestris and Jane Scott. Among the topics considered are women's history plays, domesticity, ethics and sexuality in women's closet drama, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers. Specialists in performance studies, Romantic Period drama, and women's writing will find the essays both challenging and inspiring.

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

Author : Daniel J. Ennis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644532565
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The World of Elizabeth Inchbald written by Daniel J. Ennis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes essays on the literary, theatrical and cultural conditions in Britain during the long eighteenth century, centered on the life, work, and world of the writer/actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821).

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections

Author : Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087721X
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections by : Denise L. Montgomery

Download or read book Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections written by Denise L. Montgomery and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.

The Celebrated Hannah Cowley

Author : Angela Escott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317323475
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Celebrated Hannah Cowley written by Angela Escott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowley’s life and work.

The Complete Plays of Frances Burney

Author : Peter Sabor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315477912
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Plays of Frances Burney written by Peter Sabor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete plays of Fanny Burney, taken from the original manuscripts of her work. The work includes a general introduction, headnotes to each play, explanatory notes and variant readings.

Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800

Author : Vivien Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521586801
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 written by Vivien Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.

Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882326
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700 written by Alison Findlay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted retreat, a select number of women took an active part in directing and controlling dramatic self-representations. Examining texts from the mid-sixteenth century through to the end of the seventeenth, the chapters trace the development of a women-centred aesthetic in a variety of dramatic forms. Plays by noblewomen such as Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Rachel Fane and the women of the Cavendish family, form an alternative dramatic tradition centred on the household. The powerful directorial and performative roles played by queens in royal progresses and masques are explored as examples of women's dramatic production in the royal court. The book also highlights women's performances in alternative venues, such as the courtroom and the pulpit, arguing that the practices of martyrs like Margaret Clitherow or visionaries like Anna Trapnel call into question traditional definitions of theatre. The challenges faced by women who were admitted to the professional theatre companies after 1660 are explored in two chapters which deal with the plays of Katherine Philips, Elizabeth Polwhele, Aphra Behn, and Mary Pix, among others. By considering the theatrical dimensions of a wide range of early modern women's writing, this book reveals the breathtaking panorama of women's dramatic production and will be essential reading for students of women's writing and renaissance drama.

English Stage Comedy 1490-1990

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134657897
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 written by Alexander Leggatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures.

Backstage in the Novel

Author : Francesca Saggini
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932548
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Backstage in the Novel written by Francesca Saggini and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theatre in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney" -- Dust jacket.

The Witlings and the Woman Hater

Author : Geoffrey M Sill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315476711
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Witlings and the Woman Hater written by Geoffrey M Sill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict.

Complete Plays of Frances Burney

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773565558
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Complete Plays of Frances Burney written by Frances Burney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the plays, as in her novels, Burney satirizes the social conventions and pretensions of her day. The Witlings (1779), her first play, is a biting satire on the Bluestockings; it was never performed, however, for fear of a possible scandal. The violent, the grotesque, and the macabre also figure strongly in her writings. Contents Volume 1: The Comedies Introduction Chronology The Witlings (1778-80) Love and Fashion (1798-99) A Busy Day (1800-02) The Woman-Hater (1800-02) Volume 2: The Tragedies Edwy and Elgiva (1788-95) Hubert de Vere (1790-97) The Siege of Pevensey (1790-91) Elberta (1791-1814) Appendix: The Triumphant Toadeater (1798)

The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750

Author : Thomas Alan King
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299197841
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750 written by Thomas Alan King and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The queer man's mode of embodiment--his gestural and vocal style, his posture and gait, his occupation of space--remembers a political history. To gesture with the elbow held close to the body, to affect a courtly lisp, or to set an arm akimbo with the hand turned back on the hip is to cite a history in which the sovereign body became the effeminate and sodomitical and, finally, the homosexual body. In Queer Articulations, Thomas A. King argues that the Anglo-American queer body publicizes a history of resistance to the gendered terms whereby liberal subjectivities were secured in early modern England. Arguing that queer agency preceded and enabled the formulation of queer subjectivities, Queer Articulations investigates theatricality and sodomy as performance practices foreclosed in the formation of gendered privacy and consequently available for resistant uses by male-bodied persons who have been positioned, or who have located themselves, outside the universalized public sphere of citizen-subjects. By defining queerness as the lack or failure of private pleasures, rather than an alternative pleasure or substance in its own right, eighteenth-century discourses reconfigured publicness as the mark of difference from the naturalized, private bodies of liberal subjects. Inviting a performance-centered, interdisciplinary approach to queer/male identities, King develops a model of queerness as processual activity, situated in time and place but irreducible to the individual subject's identifications, desires, and motivations."--Pub. desc. (v.2).