Broken Boundaries [electronic resource] : Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama / Katherine M. Quinsey, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quinsey, Katherine M., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Theater.

Feminist drama, English--History and criticism.

Feminist drama, English.

Women and literature--England--History--17th century.

Women and literature.

Women in the theater--England--History--17th century.

Women in the theater.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

Feminism and literature--England--History--17th century.

Feminism and literature.

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

English drama.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and abo

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Instruments of Propagation: Plays by Women; Blacker Than Hell Creates: Pix Rewrites Othello; Unmanned with Thy Words: Regendering Tragedy in Manley and Trotter; In the Carnival World of Adam's Garden: Roving and Rape in Behn's Rover; Closure and Subversion in Behn's Comedies; Lady Fulbank and the Poet's Dream in Behn 's Lucky Chance; Part 2 Chased Desire: Women and Feminism in Plays by Men; Tupping Your Rival's Women: Cit-Cuckolding as Class Warfare in Restoration Comedy

Almahide Still Lives: Feminine Will and Identity in Dryden's Conquest of GranadaResisting a Private Tyranny in Two Humane Comedies; The Way of the Word: Telling Differences in Congreve's Way of the World; Part 3 The Gaze Reversed: Theory and History of Performance; Rape, Voyeurism, and the Restoration Stage; Reading Masks: The Actress and the Spectatrix in Restoration Shakespeare; Sticks and Rags, Bodies and Brocade: Essentializing Discourses and the Late Restoration Playhouse; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-4783-2

OCLC:

606068946