Teaching British women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nelson, Bonnie A., Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2010.
Series:Options for teaching ; 30.
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Table of 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-Domínguez
  • 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.