Name: Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London
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Author: White, Willow
ISBN: 9781644533406

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Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

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Physical Book

Author

Willow White

Publisher

University of Delaware Press

Language

English

Pages

214

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781644533406

Synopsis "Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London"

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist critique, practice, and experimentation. While the history of feminism and comedy is undeniably vexed, by focusing on five women playwrights of the latter half of the eighteenth century--Catherine Clive, Frances Brooke, Frances Burney, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald--this book demonstrates that stage comedy was crucial to these women's professional success in a male-dominated industry and reveals a unifying thread of feminist critique that connects their works. Though male detractors denied women's comic ability throughout the era, eighteenth-century women playwrights were on the cutting edge of comedy and their work had important feminist influence that can be traced to today's stages and screens.

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