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x, 467 pages ; 23 cm. |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Modern Language Association of America options for teaching, 1079-2562 ; 30 |
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Options for teaching ; 30.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs -- Historical contexts. Working in the theater : women playwrights, 1660-1750 / Jane Milling -- Regendering the Restoration stage : women and theater, 1660-1720 / George E. Haggerty -- Women spectators, playwrights, and performers and the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson -- Women and playwriting, 1750-1800 / Catherine Burroughs -- Individual playwrights. Aphra Behn in the contemporary theater / Nancy Copeland -- Mary Pix, the London middle class, and progressive Whig ideology / Elizabeth Kubek -- Embodying Centlivre's comic vision : A bold stroke and The wonder in the classroom / Misty G. Anderson -- Performance and philosophy in the work of Catharine Trotter Cockburn / Roxanne Kent-Drury -- The other Elizabeth Griffith / Betty Rizzo -- Frances Sheridan : a case study for mid-eighteenth century comedy / Cami D. Agan -- Hannah More's reformation of romantic theater / Patricia Demers -- Hannah Cowley, gender identity, and A bold stroke for a husband / Betsy Bolton -- To write with authority : Elizabeth Inchbald's prefaces to the British theatre / Nora Nachumi -- Joanna Baillie and the theme of trial / Victoria Myers -- The playwright-novelist. Frances Brooke's The excursion and eighteenth-century women's theater / Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty -- "The stage not answering my expectations" : the case of Eliza Haywood / Catherine Ingrassia -- Teaching Evelina as a dramatic text / Francesca Saggini -- Class, gender, and inheritance in Burney's A busy day and The woman-hater / Gillian Skinner -- Elizabeth Inchbald's Revolutionary writings / Anna Lott -- Comparative approaches. Gender, race, and party politics in the tragedies of Behn, Pix, and Manley / Pilar Cuder-DomÃnguez -- Disguise, fantasy, and misrecognition in The belle's stratagem and Fantomina / Tassie Gwilliam -- Comparing early and late plays / Kathleen Leicht -- She stoops to stratagem : a comparative approach to eighteenth-century comedy / Emily Hodgson Anderson -- Classroom strategies. Using production to teach women playwrights / Marie E. McAllister -- Cultural studies in the classroom : Behn's The rover / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Performance theory : attending to the monkey wrench in Centlivre's The busie body / Ellen MacKay -- Pre- and postrealist dramaturgy : women writers, silence, speech, and trauma / Thomas C. Crochunis -- Contexts for teaching Margaret Cavendish's Bell in campo / Vimala C. Pasupathi -- To whom does the New World belong? teaching Behn's The widow ranter / Cynthia Richards -- Teaching Behn's The rover / Anita Pacheco -- Centlivre and the stage sodomite / Melinda C. Finberg -- On using Thelma and Louise to teach Centlivre's The wonder / Jones DeRitter -- Teaching Burney's The witlings / Marjean D. Purinton -- Scarcity and surplus : teaching Inchbald's Every one has his fault / Daniel O'Quinn -- Imagining a course : teaching women dramatists / Jean I. Marsden. |
| Subject |
English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism -- Study and teaching.
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English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Study and teaching.
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English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Study and teaching.
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| Alt Author |
Nelson, Bonnie A.
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Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-
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| ISBN |
9781603290821 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1603290826 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781603290838 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1603290834 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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