Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology - the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to wom...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] Meridian 1994
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:	A Meridian book
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte 1678-1787 Vrouwelijke auteurs Schriftstellerin English drama > Women authors English drama > 18th century English drama > Restoration, 1660-1700 Frau Anthologie Drama Englisch
Zusammenfassung:	Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology - the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women - had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage. In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit Each of these English women, and the one American, Mercy Otis Warren, legitimized the profession of playwright for their sex. They were the genre's prolific women pioneers whose body of work has remained unmatched until the twentieth century
Beschreibung:	XVIII, 560 S.
ISBN:	0452011108