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1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Cover Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period -- Act I: Marriage -- Act I, Scene I: “What is a Wife?� -- Act I, Scene II: “Thou plague peculiar to Mankind?�: Mary Astell�s -- Act I, Scene III: “The great affair of human life�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn -- Act I, Scene IV: “What pleasant Lives Women lead in -- where Duty wears no Fetter but Inclination�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre -- Act II: Divorce |
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Act II, Scene I: To “undo that knot, that ties us two�Act II, Scene II: “I now think fit to unmarry �em�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn -- Act II, Scene III: “And if you don�t like him, you may live apart�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre -- Act III: Widowhood -- Act III, Scene I: Wives No More -- Act, III, Scene II: “We rich widows are the best Commodity this Country affords�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn -- Act III, Scene III: “Since it is no Better, �tis well it�s no worse�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre |
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Act IV: AffairsAct IV, Scene I: A Desire of Their Own? -- Act IV, Scene II: The Question of Genre -- Act IV, Scene III: Courtesan, Prostitute, Adulteress, Lover?: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn -- Act IV, Scene IV: “I have no Power to Speak�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna Centlivre -- Act V: Abstinence -- Act V, Scene I: The Interrelation Between Education and Independence: Mary Astell�s -- Act V, Scene II: The “Learned Lady�: Dramatic Representations: Aphra Behn |
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Act V, Scene III: “The Resolution is in the Mind�: Dramatic Representations: Susanna CentlivreEpilogue: Looking Ahead from an Eighteenth- and a Twentieth-Century Perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780838644577 |
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0838644570 |
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