Early Women Dramatists 1550 1801

Author : Margarete Rubik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349262757
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( 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.

Author : Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551112981
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama written by Jeffrey N. Cox and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-02-05 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on “closet dramas” rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge’s Remorse, Percy Shelley’s The Cenci, and Lord Byron’s Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald’s Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie’s Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genres—from melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parody—most popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated.

Author : Anne Kelley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catharine Trotter written by Anne Kelley and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The wide sweep of Kelley's study foregrounds certain critical concerns which demonstrably shaped Trotter's writing throughout, most notably the importance of rational integrity as an ethical position, and especially the significance of principled rationality as a route toward empowerment for women. Using material from Trotter's original, unpublished letters, Kelley discusses her work in the context of the period and the circle of intellectuals with whom she was in contact, such as playwrights William Congreve, George Granville, and George Farquhar, as well as philosopher John Locke." "This reading not only provides a social, political and epistemological landscape within which to situate her writing, but also fleshes out the life of the woman writer in a period which saw the burgeoning of published work by women."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Pilar Cuder-Dominguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048997
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613–1713 written by Pilar Cuder-Dominguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of seventeenth-century English drama, women participated not only as spectators or readers, but more and more as patronesses, as playwrights, and later on as actresses and even as managers. This study examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century, specifically between 1613 and 1713, which represent the publication dates of the first original tragedy (Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam) and the last one (Anne Finch's Aristomenes) written by a Stuart woman playwright. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's tragedies and tragicomedies. In examining the whole of the century from a gender perspective, this project breaks away from conventional approaches to the subject, which tend to establish an unbridgeable gap between the early Stuart period and the Restoration. All in all, this study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the evolution of English drama as well as offering an unprecedented reconstruction of the genealogy of seventeenth-century English women playwrights.

Author : David Clare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800859465
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by David Clare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance. Volume One covers plays by Irish women playwrights written between 1716 to 1992, and seeks to address and redress the historic absence of Irish female playwrights in theatre histories. Highlighting the work of nine women playwrights from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as thirteen of the twentieth century's key writers, the chapters in this volume explore such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Cowley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734041732
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Belle ́s Stratagem written by Hannah Cowley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Belle ́s Stratagem by Hannah Cowley

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Cowley
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's the Dupe? written by Hannah Cowley and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who's the Dupe?" by Hannah Cowley is a hilarious farce that takes audiences on a rollicking journey through the world of mistaken identities and comedic misunderstandings. Set in the bustling city of London, the play follows the antics of its colorful characters as they navigate a series of outrageous situations. At the heart of the story is the character of Mrs. Racket, a clever and resourceful widow who finds herself entangled in a web of deceit and deception. With the help of her quick wit and cunning, Mrs. Racket schemes to outsmart her rivals and secure her own happiness. Through its fast-paced plot and witty dialogue, "Who's the Dupe?" offers a delightful blend of humor and charm that keeps audiences laughing from start to finish. Cowley's sharp observations of human nature and society add depth to the comedy, making the play a timeless classic of English theater.

Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Celebrated Women written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: