Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre
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Behn's Play
Behn’s Play
Busie Body
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Cowley's Play
Cowley’s Play
cultural gender roles
Dormant Signification
double life
early modern theatre
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feminist literary criticism
feminist reinterpretations
gender representation in Restoration comedy
Hester Santlow
IRA Suspect
Lady Young Love
Luckey Chance
Mardi Gras
Paul Pry
performance adaptation studies
Restoration Comedy
Restoration drama
Restoration Style
RSC Production
Sir Cautious
Sir Feeble
Sir George Airy
Sir Harry Wildair
Sir Jealous
Sir Patient Fancy
Spanish Comedy
Theophilus Cibber
women playwrights
women playwrights history
Women's Comedies
Women's Playhouse Trust
Women’s Comedies
Women’s Playhouse Trust
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754631255
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.
Nancy Copeland is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. Her edition of Susanna Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Husband was published by Broadview Press in 1995.
