1st Edition
Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre Women's Comedy and the Theatre
By Nancy Copeland
Copyright 2004
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Preface; Gender and 'intertheatricality'; The Rover; The Rover and the repertoire; The Luckey Chance; The Busie Body; The Wonder; Behn, Centlivre, and 'Restoration Comedy'; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Nancy Copeland is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. Her edition of Susanna Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Husband was published by Broadview Press in 1995.
'... this is a useful study of the cultural life of four plays by pioneering professional women dramatists, which will be very helpful to students studying any aspects of Restoration drama, gender identities, or performance history.' University of Toronto Quarterly 'Women playwrights are beginning to receive the kind of attention that is their due. Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre, an important contribution to this emerging body of work, provides us with a careful study of the performance, production and reception histories of four plays by two of the leading playwrights of the age... excellent study.' The Scriblerian
