Fatal Desire : : Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660–1720 /

Fatal Desire : : Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660–1720 / / Jean I. Marsden.

Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century—a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminizati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Marsden, Jean I.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 4 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Female Spectatorship, Jeremy Collier, and the Antitheatrical Debate
  • 2. Women Watching: The Female Spectator in Late-Seventeenth-Century Comedy
  • 3. Falling Women: She-Tragedy and Sexual Spectacle
  • 4. Women Writing Women: Female Authors of She-Tragedy
  • 5. Nicholas Rowe and the Second Generation of She-Tragedy
  • 6. Sex, Politics, and the Hanoverian Succession: Refiguring Lady Jane Grey
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Plays Cited
  • General Index

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