Title: Staging gender in Behn and Centlivre
Description: "Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Comedies, Criticism and interpretation, English drama, English drama (Comedy), History, History and criticism, Stage history, Theater, Women and literature, Women authors, Behn, aphra, 1640-1689, Centlivre, susanna, 1667-1723, English drama, women authors, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Comédie anglaise, Histoire et critique, Humorous plays
Places: England
People: Aphra Behn (1640-1689), Susanna Centlivre (1667?-1723)
Time periods: 17th century, 18th century