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Curtain calls : British and American women and the theater, 1660-1820 / edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski.
- Title
- Curtain calls : British and American women and the theater, 1660-1820 / edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski.
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN2582.W65 C87 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 403 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- American drama > History and criticism
- English drama > History and criticism
- Feminism and theater > Great Britain > History
- Feminism and theater > Great Britain
- Feminism and theater > United States > History
- Feminism and theater > United States
- Women and literature > English-speaking countries
- Women in literature
- Women in the theater > Great Britain > History
- Women in the theater > Great Britain
- Women in the theater > United States > History
- Women in the theater > United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Some of the women discussed include Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth Inchbald, Sarah Siddons, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Griffith, Hannah Cowley, Hannah More, Susanna Rowson, Mercy Otis Warren.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1: DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- Tough acctress to follow / Edward A. Langhans -- Dramatic dreamscape: women's dreams and utopian vision in the works of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle / Linda R. Payve -- Herself as heroine: protraits as autobiography for Elizabeth Inchbald -- "Towering beyond her sex": stature and sublimity in the achievement of Sarah Siddons -- 2: STAGE BUSINESS -- A feminist link in the old boys' network: the cosseting of Katherine Philips / Maureen E. Mulvihill -- "And poets shall by patron princes live": Aphra Behn and patronage / Deborah C. Payne -- "Depressa resurgam": Elizabeth Griffith's playwriting career / Betty Rizzo -- The paper war of Hannah Cowley and Hannah More / Ellen Donkin -- 3: THE DRESSER -- Finding the good parts: sexuality in women's tragedies in the time of Queen Anne / Kendall -- Aphra Behn: the playwright as "breeches part" / Frances M. Kavenik -- "I by a double right thy bounties claim": Aphra Behn and sexual space / Jessica Munns -- Aphra Behn and the pattern hero / Nancy Cotton -- Dressing to deceive / Edna L. Steeves -- 4: SET CHANGE: THE COLONIAL SCENE -- Susanna Rowson: feminist and democrat -- Mercy Otis Warren: dramatist of the American Revolution / Jean B. Kern -- "Quitting the loom and distaff":Eighteenth-Century American women dramatists / Mary Anne Schofield -- 5: CRITICAL REVIEWS -- Britain's first woman drama critic: Elizabeth Inchbald / Katharine M. Rogers -- Critical remarks on the four taking plays of this season by Crinna, a country parson's wife / Constance Clark -- 6: PLAYBILL -- "Their empire disjoyn'd": serious plays by women on the London stage 1660-1737 / William J. Burling -- "This new-found path attempting": women dramatists in England, 1660-1800 / Judith Philips Stanton -- 7: CLOSET DRAMA: FROM PLAY TO THE NOVEL -- Plot and politics in Susanna Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife / Douglas R. Butler -- Aphra Behn: a dramatist in search of the novel / Rose Zimbardo -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0821409573 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^90044396^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library