Teaching British women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century / edited by Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Bonnie A.

Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-

Series:

Options for teaching ; 30.

Options for teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism--Study and teaching.

English drama.

English drama--Women authors--History and criticism--Study and teaching.

English drama--18th century--History and criticism--Study and teaching.

English drama--Women authors.

Physical Description:

x, 467 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs

Historical contexts. Working in the theater : women playwrights, 1660-1750 / Jane Milling

Regendering the Restoration stage : women and theater, 1660-1720 / George E. Haggerty

Women spectators, playwrights, and performers and the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson

Women and playwriting, 1750-1800 / Catherine Burroughs

Individual playwrights. Aphra Behn in the contemporary theater / Nancy Copeland

Mary Pix, the London middle class, and progressive Whig ideology / Elizabeth Kubek

Embodying Centlivre's comic vision : A bold stroke and The wonder in the classroom / Misty G. Anderson

Performance and philosophy in the work of Catharine Trotter Cockburn / Roxanne Kent-Drury

The other Elizabeth Griffith / Betty Rizzo

Frances Sheridan : a case study for mid-eighteenth century comedy / Cami D. Agan

Hannah More's reformation of romantic theater / Patricia Demers

Hannah Cowley, gender identity, and A bold stroke for a husband / Betsy Bolton

To write with authority : Elizabeth Inchbald's prefaces to the British theatre / Nora Nachumi

Joanna Baillie and the theme of trial / Victoria Myers

The playwright-novelist. Frances Brooke's The excursion and eighteenth-century women's theater / Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty

"The stage not answering my expectations" : the case of Eliza Haywood / Catherine Ingrassia

Teaching Evelina as a dramatic text / Francesca Saggini

Class, gender, and inheritance in Burney's A busy day and The woman-hater / Gillian Skinner

Elizabeth Inchbald's Revolutionary writings / Anna Lott

Comparative approaches. Gender, race, and party politics in the tragedies of Behn, Pix, and Manley / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

Disguise, fantasy, and misrecognition in The belle's stratagem and Fantomina / Tassie Gwilliam

Comparing early and late plays / Kathleen Leicht

She stoops to stratagem : a comparative approach to eighteenth-century comedy / Emily Hodgson Anderson

Classroom strategies. Using production to teach women playwrights / Marie E. McAllister

Cultural studies in the classroom : Behn's The rover / Laura J. Rosenthal

Performance theory : attending to the monkey wrench in Centlivre's The busie body / Ellen MacKay

Pre- and postrealist dramaturgy : women writers, silence, speech, and trauma / Thomas C. Crochunis

Contexts for teaching Margaret Cavendish's Bell in campo / Vimala C. Pasupathi

To whom does the New World belong? teaching Behn's The widow ranter / Cynthia Richards

Teaching Behn's The rover / Anita Pacheco

Centlivre and the stage sodomite / Melinda C. Finberg

On using Thelma and Louise to teach Centlivre's The wonder / Jones DeRitter

Teaching Burney's The witlings / Marjean D. Purinton

Scarcity and surplus : teaching Inchbald's Every one has his fault / Daniel O'Quinn

Imagining a course : teaching women dramatists / Jean I. Marsden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603290821

1603290826

9781603290838

1603290834

OCLC:

642841583