Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9780312292751
ISBN-13 : 0312292759
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Book Synopsis Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy by : M. Anderson

Download or read book Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy written by M. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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