Teaching British women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Language Association of America,
2010.
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| 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-DomÃnguez
- 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.