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  • © 1998

Early Women Dramatists 1550–1801

Authors:

  1. Margarete Rubik

    1. University of Vienna, Austria

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  • Analyses hitherto neglected authors and works, including the key texts of the major female authors of the period
    Discusses the works in relation to contemporary culture and provides historical summaries
    Traces the development of a female tradition.

Part of the book series: English Dramatists (ENGDRAMA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Sixteenth and Early Seventeeth Centuries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5
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  3. The Restoration and Turn of the Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-21
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    3. Aphra Behn

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      Pages 32-56

    4. Women Dramatists at the Turn of the Century

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      Pages 57-92

    5. Susanna Centlivre

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      Pages 93-112

  4. The Eighteenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-117
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    2. Women Dramatists of the Early Eighteenth Century

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      Pages 118-135

    3. Women Dramatists of the Late Eighteenth Century

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      Pages 136-166

    4. Hannah Cowley and Elizabeth Inchbald

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      Pages 167-185

  5. Performance and Tradition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    3. Towards a Female Tradition in the Theatre

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      Pages 197-202

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 209-219
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About this book

A comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text indicating the writers' precarious social and artistic position and ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex. Chapters are devoted to individual writers as well as to general developments in specific periods. The most significant plays are analysed in detail and related to the male literary canon of the time in order to stress both their originality and the existence of an, albeit tentative, female literary tradition.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Vienna, Austria

    Margarete Rubik

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About the author

MARGARETE RUBIK is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Vienna, having studied English and History in Vienna and American Studies at the University of Southern California. She has published extensively on women's drama and the Victorian novel.
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