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This extraordinary edition includes seven full-length plays from the era, including an unproduced play by Frances Burney, unavailable for centuries.
Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology—the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women—had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage. In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit. Each of these women—Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, Susanna Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, Elizabeth Inchbald, Mary Griffith Pix, and Mercy Otis Warren—legitimized the profession of playwright for their sex. They were the genre's prolific women pioneers whose body of work has remained unmatched until the twentieth century.
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Katharine Munzer Rogers, a Professor Emerita of English from Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has published many articles and books on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and, since retirement, has pursued her interests in animals and in the Oz books of L. Frank Baum. She lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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- PublisherPlume
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0452011108
- ISBN 13 9780452011106
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages560
- EditorRogers Katharine M.
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