Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage by Anderson, M.

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312239381)

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Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage by Anderson, M.

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage

$54.99
Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage by Anderson, M.

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: M. Anderson
ISBN-10: 0312239386
ISBN-13: 9780312239381
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2002
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.80w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 275
By M. Anderson
By M. Anderson
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MISTY G. ANDERSON is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She has published articles on the state of eighteenth-century studies, MTV, Jane Austen, Margaret Cavendish, Jane Barker, and John Cleland. This is her first book.

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