Eighteenth-century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix

Eighteenth-century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix

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Summary

Offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both printed and canonical works. The texts are edited, and introductions, annotation, and informative bibliographies tell about the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.

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Eighteenth-century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix

Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of signficant areas. A splendid and imaginative project' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University
Andrea, Bernadette: - Bernadette Andrea is professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is author of Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor of Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
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ISBN 13 9780192827296
ISBN 10 0192827294
Title Eighteenth-century Women Dramatists
Author Mary Pix
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2001-10-01
Number of pages 448
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