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Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage
Misty G. Anderson
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Hardcover. Attending to the dialogue between the comic events in plays by female writers of the 18th century and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political and legal arguements about women and marrige that fascinated the playwrights and the theatre-going public. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 435.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312239381
SKU
V9780312239381
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About Misty G. Anderson
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.
Reviews for Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage
'...a wonderfully thoughtful (and useful) first book...presented crisply and persuasively, with an engaging humor...' - Choice 'There is much of interest provided in this book...' - Wendy Jones Nakanishi, English Studies - A journal of English Language and Literature 'Anderson's focus takes readers to a lively comic literature on women and marriage, an approach ... Read more