Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2011
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-916-8 (ISBN)

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This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity.

As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.

Tanya M. Caldwell is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University.

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Aphra Behn, The Emperor of the Moon (1687)
Susanna Centlivre, The Gamester (1705)
Catherine Clive, The Rehearsal; or, Bays in Petticoats (1753)
by Noel Chevalier
Hannah Cowley, The Runaway (1776)

THE EMPEROR OF THE MOON

THE GAMESTER

THE REHEARSAL; OR, BAYS IN PETTICOATS.
EDITED BY NOEL CHEVALIER

THE RUNAWAY

A MISCELLANY OF CRITICISM BY WOMEN
DRAMATISTS

Aphra Behn, Epistle to the Reader,
The Dutch Lover: A Comedy (1673)
Aphra Behn, Prologue, The Forced Marriage;
Or, The Jealous Bridegroom (1670)
Aphra Behn, Preface, The Luckey Chance;
Or, An Alderman’s Bargain (1686)
Aphra Behn, “To the Reader,” Sir Patient Fancy (1678)
Aphra Behn, Epilogue, Sir Patient Fancy (1678)
Delariviere Manley, Preface, The Lost Lover;
Or, The Jealous Husband: A Comedy (1696)
Delariviere Manley, “To the Author of Agnes de Castro” (1696)
Catharine Trotter, Prologue, Agnes de Castro: A Tragedy (1696)
Susanna Centlivre, Dedication,
The Platonick Lady: A Comedy (1707)
Mary Leapor, “Upon Her Play being returned to her,
stained with Claret” (1751)

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Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	424 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10	1-55111-916-1 / 1551119161
ISBN-13	978-1-55111-916-8 / 9781551119168
Zustand	Neuware