Teaching British women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century
By: edited by Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs
Series: Options for teaching -- 30
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781603290821; 9781603290838
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs; title: Historical contexts. Working in the theater : women playwrights, 1660-1750 / Jane Milling; title: Regendering the Restoration stage : women and theater, 1660-1720 / George E. Haggerty; title: Women spectators, playwrights, and performers and the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson; title: Women and playwriting, 1750-1800 / Catherine Burroughs; title: Individual playwrights. Aphra Behn in the contemporary theater / Nancy Copeland; title: Mary Pix, the London middle class, and progressive Whig ideology / Elizabeth Kubek; title: Embodying Centlivre's comic vision : a bold stroke and the wonder in the classroom / Misty G. Anderson; title: Performance and philosophy in the work of Catharine Trotter Cockburn / Roxanne Kent-Drury; title: The other Elizabeth Griffith / Betty Rizzo; title: Frances Sheridan : a case study for mid-eighteenth century comedy / Cami D. Agan; title: Hannah More's reformation of romantic theater / Patricia Demers; title: Hannah Cowley, gender identity, and A bold stroke for a husband / Betsy Bolton; title: To write with authority : Elizabeth Inchbald's prefaces to the British theatre / Nora Nachumi; title: Joanna Baillie and the theme of trial / Victoria Myers; title: The playwright-novelist  Frances Brooke's The excursion and eighteenth-century women's theater / Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty; title: "The stage not answering my expectations" : the case of Eliza Haywood / Catherine Ingrassia; title: Teaching Evelina as a dramatic text / Francesca Saggini; title: Class, gender, and inheritance in Burney's A busy day and The woman-hater / Gillian Skinner; title: Elizabeth Inchbald's Revolutionary writings / Anna Lott; title: Comparative approaches. Gender, race, and party politics in the tragedies of Behn, Pix, and Manley / Pilar Cuder-Dominguez; title: Disguise, fantasy, and misrecognition in The belle's stratagem and fantomina / Tassie Gwilliam; title: Comparing early and late plays / Kathleen Leicht; title: She stoops to stratagem : a comparative approach to eighteenth-century comedy / Emily Hodgson Anderson; title: Classroom strategies. Using production to teach women playwrights / Marie E. McAllister; title: Cultural studies in the classroom : Behn's The rover / Laura J. Rosenthal; title: Performance theory : attending to the monkey wrench in Centlivre's The busie body / Ellen MacKay; title: Pre- and postrealist dramaturgy : women writers, silence, speech, and trauma / Thomas C. Crochunis; title: Contexts for teaching Margaret Cavendish's Bell in campo / Vimala C. Pasupathi; title: To whom does the New World belong? teaching Behn's The widow ranter / Cynthia Richards; title: Teaching Behn's The rover / Anita Pacheco; title: Centlivre and the stage sodomite / Melinda C. Finberg; title: On using Thelma and Louise to teach Centlivre's The wonder / Jones DeRitter; title: Teaching Burney's The witlings / Marjean D. Purinton; title: Scarcity and surplus : teaching Inchbald's Every one has his fault / Daniel O'Quinn; title: Imagining a course: teaching women dramatists / Jean I. Marsden.