Women, writing, and the theater in the early modern period: the plays of Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
2001
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| Author Notes: | Annette Kreis-Schinck |
Table of Contents:
- ""Cover Page ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period""; ""Act I: Marriage""; ""Act I, Scene I: “What is a Wife?�""; ""Act I, Scene II: “Thou plague peculiar to Mankind?�: Mary Astell�s""; ""Act I, Scene III: “The great affair of human life�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn""; ""Act I, Scene IV: “What pleasant Lives Women lead in""; ""where Duty wears no Fetter but Inclination�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre""; ""Act II: Divorce""
- ""Act II, Scene I: To “undo that knot, that ties us two�""""Act II, Scene II: “I now think fit to unmarry �em�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn""; ""Act II, Scene III: “And if you don�t like him, you may live apart�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre""; ""Act III: Widowhood""; ""Act III, Scene I: Wives No More""; ""Act, III, Scene II: “We rich widows are the best Commodity this Country affords�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn""; ""Act III, Scene III: “Since it is no Better, �tis well it�s no worse�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre""
- ""Act IV: Affairs""""Act IV, Scene I: A Desire of Their Own?""; ""Act IV, Scene II: The Question of Genre""; ""Act IV, Scene III: Courtesan, Prostitute, Adulteress, Lover?: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn""; ""Act IV, Scene IV: “I have no Power to Speak�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre""; ""Act V: Abstinence""; ""Act V, Scene I: The Interrelation Between Education and Independence: Mary Astell�s""; ""Act V, Scene II: The “Learned Lady�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn""
- ""Act V, Scene III: “The Resolution is in the Mind�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre""""Epilogue: Looking Ahead from an Eighteenth- and a Twentieth-Century Perspective""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""