Female playwrights and eighteenth-century comedy :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
negotiating marriage on the London stage /
First Statement of Responsibility
Misty G. Anderson.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 262 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four women in England who enjoyed career-long success as comic playwrights from 1670-1800. Their respective approaches to the body, contracts, nationalism, and divorce animate their comedies and provide comic comment on the marriage plot. By attending to the dialogue between humorous comic events and the more predictable comic endings of these plays, Anderson illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Behn, Aphra,1640-1689.
Behn, Aphra.
Centlivre, Susannah,1667-1723.
Centlivre, Susannah.
Cowley, Hannah,1743-1809.
Cowley, Hannah.
Inchbald, Elizabeth,1753-1821.
Inchbald, Elizabeth.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Courtship in literature.
English drama (Comedy)-- History and criticism.
English drama-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English drama-- Women authors-- History and criticism.