Title: Gender, theatre, and the origins of criticism from Dryden to Manley : from Dryden to Manley /
Authors: Frank, Marcie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Manley, Knowledge Literature.; Dryden, John, Knowledge Literature.; Dryden, John, Influence.; Criticism Great Britain History; English literature History and criticism Theory, etc.; Criticism Great Britain History; English drama History and criticism Theory, etc.; Sex role in literature.; Sex in literature
Contents: The critical stage -- "Equal to ourselves" : John Dryden's national literary history -- Staging criticism, staging Milton : John Dryden's The state of innocence -- Imitating Shakespeare : gender and criticism -- The female playwright and the city lady -- Scandals of a female nature.