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Fatal desire : women, sexuality, and the English stage, 1660-1720 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marsden, Jean I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
English drama > Restoration, 1660-1700 > History and criticism.
Women in the theater > England > History > 17th century.
English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
Sex role in literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Female spectatorship, Jeremy Collier, and the antitheatrical debate
  • Women watching : the female spectator in late-seventeenth-century comedy
  • Falling women : she-tragedy and sexual spectacle
  • Women writing women : female authors of she-tragedy
  • Nicholas Rowe and the second generation of she-tragedy
  • Sex, politics, and the Hanoverian succession : refiguring Lady Jane Grey.