Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama 0813108713, 9780813159997, 0813159997, 0813147832, 9780813147833

This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late

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English Pages [256] Year 1996

Table of contents :
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Instruments of Propagation: Plays by Women
Blacker Than Hell Creates: Pix Rewrites Othello
Unmanned with Thy Words: Regendering Tragedy in Manley and Trotter
In the Carnival World of Adam's Garden: Roving and Rape in Behn's Rover
Closure and Subversion in Behn's Comedies
Lady Fulbank and the Poet's Dream in Behn 's Lucky Chance
Part 2 Chased Desire: Women and Feminism in Plays by Men
Tupping Your Rival's Women: Cit-Cuckolding as Class Warfare in Restoration Comedy
Almahide Still Lives: Feminine Will and Identity in Dryden's Conquest of Granada
Resisting a Private Tyranny in Two Humane Comedies
The Way of the Word: Telling Differences in Congreve's Way of the World
Part 3 The Gaze Reversed: Theory and History of Performance
Rape, Voyeurism, and the Restoration Stage
Reading Masks: The Actress and the Spectatrix in Restoration Shakespeare
Sticks and Rags, Bodies and Brocade: Essentializing Discourses and the Late Restoration Playhouse
Contributors
Index
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Broken Boundaries Women & Feminism in Restoration Drama Katherine M. Quinsey Editor

The University Press of Kentucky

Frontispiece: Nell Gwyn rising from the dead to speak the epilogue to Dryden's Tyrannick Love, published as the frontispiece to A Key to the Rehearsal (1714) in The Dramatick Works of his Grace George Villiers, late Duke ofBuckingham (1715), vol. 2. By permission of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Copyright © 1996 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University.

Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008 00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Broken boundaries : women and feminism in Restoration drama / edited by Katherine M. Quinsey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8131-1945--6 Calk. paper). -ISBN 0-8131-0871-3 Cpbk. : alk. paper) 1. English drama-Restoration, 1660--1700---History and criticism. 2. Feminism and literature-England-History-17th century. 3. Literature and society-England-History-17th century. 4. Women in the theater-England-History-17th century. 5. Women and literature-England-History-17th century. 6. Theater-EnglandHistory-17th century. 7. Gender identity in literature. 8. Sex role in literature. 9. Women in literature. I. Quinsey, Katherine M.,1955PR698.F45B76 1996 96-5329 822'.409352042--