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Women's war drama in England in the seventeenth century

Title: Women's war drama in England in the seventeenth century / Brenda Josephine Liddy.
Author: Liddy, Brenda Josephine.
Publication: Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, [2008], ©2008.

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x, 317 pages; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-307) and indexes.

Contents

Ch. 1. Setting the Scene: A Contextual Examination of Women's Drama in the Early Modern Period -- Ch. 2. "Our Pedantical Servants, Have Given Us Up for a Prey to the Enemy": Representations of Female Community in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The Concealed Fancies and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's The Sociable Companions -- Ch. 3. "The Devil Take This Cursed Plotting Age": Representations of Female Community in Aphra Behn's The Rover and The Feigned Courtesans -- Ch. 4. "Shall Only Men Be Conquerors, and Women Slaves?": Representations of Female Soldiers in Margaret Cavendish's Loves Adventures and Bell in Campo -- Ch. 5. "Though She Be No Natural Amazon, She's Capable of All Their Martial Fopperies": Representations of Female Soldiers in Aphra Behn's The Young King and The Widdow Ranter -- Ch. 6. "Why Should We Tear Ourselves with Civil War?": Representations of Women as Peacemakers in Katherine Philips' Pompey and Horace -- Ch. 7. "Never Was a Civil War Feared More than Now": Representations of Women as Peacemakers in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads and The City Heiress.

ISBN

9781604975239 (alk. paper)
1604975237 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008011280
40015707033

OCLC

ocn213495230
213495230
SCSB-5422421

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Columbia University Libraries