Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

Name: Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
Author: M. Anderson

Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2002

ISBN13: 9781349386932

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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.

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ISBN13:9781349386932

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Preface Introduction: Funny Women 'Divertisement and Delight': Comedy, Contract, and Pleasure You Irreplaceable You: Behn's Unalienable Bodies and Comic Exchange Coming to Market: Centlivre and the Promise of Contract Rule, Britania: Women and the National Community in Cowley's Comedies Beyond the Law: Contract, Divorce, and Community in Inchbald's Comedies Epilogue

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