Title: The prostituted muse : images of women & women dramatists, 1642-1737 /
Authors: Pearson, Jacqueline, 1949-
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: English drama Women authors History and criticism; Women in literature; English drama History and criticism; English drama History and criticism; Women and literature Great Britain.; Women in the theater Great Britain.; Women and literature Great Britain History; Women and literature Great Britain History
Contents: The prostituted muse: women writers, 1640-1740 -- Women in the theatre, 1660-1737 -- Gender and genre: men's images of women in comedy, tragedy and sentimental -- Women's lives and language in plays and other writings by men -- Unconventional women in plays by male authors -- Transvestite heroines and the plays in which they appear -- Margaret Cavendish and other minor female dramatists in England, 1642-1700 -- 'My masculine part the poet in me': women and feminism in the plays of Aphra Behn -- The female wits: images of women in the works of Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter and Delariviere Manley -- 'In love with Liberty': women, whigs and freedom in the plays of Susanna Centlivre -- Minor women dramatists, 1700-1737.