Fatal desire : women, sexuality, and the English stage, 1660-1720 / Jean I. Marsden

Author: Marsden, Jean I.
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Physical Description: viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.

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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

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0801444470 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-205) and indexes.

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