Fatal desire : women, sexuality, and the English stage, 1660-1720 /
Marsden, Jean I.
Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and indexes.
Female spectatorship, Jeremy Collier, and the antitheatrical debate -- Women watching : the female spectator in late-seventeenth-century comedy -- Falling women : she-tragedy and sexual spectacle -- Women writing women : female authors of she-tragedy -- Nicholas Rowe and the second generation of she-tragedy -- Sex, politics, and the Hanoverian succession : refiguring Lady Jane Grey.
English drama
Women in the theater
English drama (Tragedy)
Women and literature
Literature and society
Sex role in literature.