Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy : Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage
by
M. Anderson
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0312239386
ISBN-13
9780312239381
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Imprint
St Martin's Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 28th, 2002
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
435 grams
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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.
Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four women in England who enjoyed career-long success as comicplaywrights from 1670-1800. Their respective approaches to the body, contracts, nationalism, and divorce animate their comedies and provide comic comment on the marriage plot. By attending to the dialogue between humorous comic events and the more predictable comic endings of these plays, Anderson illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
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