Women's Wit on the Early Modern Stage
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1600s
1660-1730
1700s
18th century studies
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Aphra Behn
Author_Beth Cortese
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Catherine Trotter
collaboration
comedies
comic heroine
creative abilities
critique
cultural role
culture
Delarivier Manley
eighteenth-century drama
Elizabeth Polwhele
empowerment
English drama
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European literature
female agency
female spectators
feminized perspective
forthcoming
Frances Boothby
French literature
gender
gender performance
gender roles
gender stereotypes
literary studies
Mary Pix
onstage
patriarchy
performance
playwrights
Restoration drama
seventeenth-century drama
social commentary
societal role
society
stage
stereotypes
Susanna Centlivre
theater
theater and performance
theater studies
theatre
tragedies
tragicomedies
wit
women characters
women empowerment
women playwrights
women's creativity
women's intellect
women's revenge
Women's Studies
women's voices
Product details
- ISBN 9781644534373
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2026
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Women's Wit Onstage expands the view of wit in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama beyond repartee to include the interplay between verbal and physical forms in comedies, tragedies, and tragicomedies, placing wit in a theatrical and embodied context. Through wit, women characters, playwrights, and performers expressed a feminized perspective that questioned gender stereotypes and resisted patriarchal authority."."
