Women's war drama in England in the seventeenth century
By: Brenda Josephine Liddy.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Youngstown, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781604975239
Subjects: English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism; War and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Women in literature; Women soldiers in literature; War in literature; Women and war in literature; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene: a contextual examination of women's drama in the early modern period; title: "Our pedantical servants, have given us up for a prey to the enemy": representations of female community in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The concealed fancies and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's the sociable companions; title: "The devil take this cursed plotting age": representations of female community in Aphra Behn's The rover and The feigned courtesans; title: "Shall only men be conquerors, and women slaves?": representations of female soldiers in Margaret Cavendish's Loves adventures and Bell in Campo; title: "Though she be no natural amazon, she's capable of all their martial flopperies": representations of female soldiers in Aphra Behn's The young king and The widow ranter; title: "Why Should we tear ourselves with Civil War?":  representations of women as peacemakers in Katherine Philips' Pompey and Horace; title: "Never was a Civil War feared more than now": representations of women as peacemakers in Aphra Behn's The roundheads and The city heiress.