Staging Gender In Behn And Centlivre

Author : Nancy Copeland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351898249

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Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre by Nancy Copeland Pdf

Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.

Author : Laura Engel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527561366

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The Public’s Open to Us All by Laura Engel Pdf

“The Public’s Open to Us All”: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England considers the relationship between British women and various modes of performance in the long eighteenth century. From the moment Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, the question of women’s status in the public world became the focus of cultural attention both on and off the stage. In addition to the appearance of the first actresses during this period female playwrights, novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, theatrical managers and entrepreneurs emerged as skillful and often demanding professionals. In this variety of new roles, eighteenth-century women redefined shifting notions of femininity by challenging traditional representations of female subjectivity and contributing to the shaping of eighteenth-century society’s attitudes, tastes, and cultural imagination. Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century studies reflects a heightened interest in fame, the rise of celebrity culture, and new ways of understanding women’s participation as both private individuals and public professionals. What is unique to the body of essays presented here is the authors’ focus on performance as a means of thinking about the ways in which women occupied, negotiated, re-imagined, and challenged the world outside of the traditional domestic realm. The authors employ a range of historical, literary, and theoretical approaches to the connections among women and performance, and in doing so make significant contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, theatre history, gender studies, and performance studies.

Author : Ann Marie Stewart
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781575911342

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The Ravishing Restoration by Ann Marie Stewart Pdf

Author : Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781551119168

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Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century by Tanya M. Caldwell Pdf

This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.

Author : Emrys D. Jones,Victoria Joule
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319769028

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Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture by Emrys D. Jones,Victoria Joule Pdf

This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity’s origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.

Author : Susanna Centlivre
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770480544

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The Basset Table by Susanna Centlivre Pdf

The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. Meanwhile, Lady Reveller’s cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off to the bluff sea-captain Hearty. How can Lady Reveller be persuaded to forego the delights of gambling? And how can Valeria avoid an unwanted marriage? This witty play paints a seductive picture of the thrills of the Restoration gaming table and challenges contemporary stereotypes of the learned lady. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on female education, gambling, and writing for the stage, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critical writing on Centlivre and The Basset Table.

Author : Gary Day,Jack Lynch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1524 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444330205

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The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set by Gary Day,Jack Lynch Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com

Author : Elizabeth Kraft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317064718

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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films by Elizabeth Kraft Pdf

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents, there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant, Millamant and Mirabell, and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon, Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.

Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521885270

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The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing by Laura Lunger Knoppers Pdf

Ideal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.

Author : Oddvar Holmesland
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815652083

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Utopian Negotiation by Oddvar Holmesland Pdf

Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) were two of the boldest women authors of seventeenth century England. They made gestures toward a utopian future involving female emancipation and gender agreement, but depicted a world too complex for simple answers. In the first book-length exploration of the two authors together, Holmesland reevaluates the nature of utopianism in the writings of both, considering a wide range of their literary output. Both writers try to avoid fixed positions, exploring areas in between, seeking mediating solutions through "utopian negotiation." Requiring more equal gender relations, for instance, they challenge patriarchalism; however, while seeking to redefine the heroic code of honor, idealizing gentleness in men, they call for a femininity with heroic resources. Aspiring to such ideals of male-female mutuality, both authors extend this thinking to their view of the body politic.

Author : Line Cottegnies,John Thompson,Sandrine Parageau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004311848

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Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France by Line Cottegnies,John Thompson,Sandrine Parageau Pdf

In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions.

Author : Vanessa L. Rapatz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513145

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Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works by Vanessa L. Rapatz Pdf

Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408166147

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The Rover by Aphra Behn Pdf

Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group of love-struck Englishmen in Naples, Aphra Behn's play explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses of sexual passion. Hers is a male-dominated society, but one with a clear-sighted portrayal of the female predicament. The play is widely taught on A Level courses as well as on undergraduate literature and women's writing courses. This new edition contains a completely new introduction, and takes into account important criticism from the past decade, as well as a new understanding of the nature of theatre in Behn's time, and the significance of her contribution to English drama.

Author : Aleksondra Hultquist,Elizabeth J. Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317196938

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New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature by Aleksondra Hultquist,Elizabeth J. Mathews Pdf

This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of thinking about her literary production and significance. While contributors reconsider some well-known texts through her generic intertextuality or unresolved political moments, the volume focuses more on those works that have had less attention: dramas, correspondence, journalistic endeavors, and late prose fiction. The methodological approaches incorporate traditional investigations of Manley, such as historical research, gender theory, and comparative close readings, as well as some recently influential theories, like geocriticism and affect studies. This book forges new paths in the many underdeveloped directions in Manley scholarship, including her work’s exploration of foreign locales, the power dynamics between individuals and in relation to states, sexuality beyond heteronormativity, and the shifting operations and influences of genre. While it draws on previous writing about Manley’s engagement with Whig/Tory politics, gender, and queerness, it also argues for Manley’s contributions as a writer with wide-ranging knowledge of both the inner sanctums of London and the outer developing British Empire, an astute reader of politics, a sophisticated explorer of emotional and gender dynamics, and a flexible and clever stylist. In contrast to the many ways Manley has been too easily dismissed, this collection carefully considers many points of view, and opens the way for new analyses of Manley’s life, work, and vital contributions to the full range of forms in which she wrote.

Author : Daniel J. Ennis,E. Joe Johnson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532584

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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald by Daniel J. Ennis,E. Joe Johnson Pdf

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture, theater history, literary analyses and to historical investigations, the essays not only present a fuller picture of cultural life in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but also reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives. The collection concludes with the final scholarly presentation of the late Professor Jenkins, a study of the eighteenth-century English newspaper The World (1753-1756).