This dissertation traces the impact of censorship on women dramatists from the Renaissance through the late eighteenth century, focusing on the plays of Elizabeth Cary, Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, and Susanna Centlivre. Several types of censorship--politica1, religious, and moral--affected the work of these playwrights, and several agencies--the Master of Revels, the audience, the theatre manager, and the prompter--were involved in censorship of their works. When early modern women wrote for the stage, they confronted the strictures against publication and public exposure. The four playwrights discussed here used a combination of self-censorship and subversive strategies in their work. Self-censorship was particularly significant for Elizabeth Ca...
My dissertation considers how and why representations of female suffering in Restoration tragedy had...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-110).The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry ...
This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restora...
Only with the fairly recent advent of Women\u27s Studies have attempts been made to rediscover negle...
This dissertation reevaluates the role of early modern female libertines as sexual celebrities and a...
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century drama by women should be analyzed as a public disc...
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century drama by women should be analyzed as a public disc...
This thesis argues that censorship is central to early modern authorial self-construction and that t...
This dissertation looks at current theatre historiography in terms of pedagogy and performance pract...
My dissertation focuses on language and forms of expression for women in early modern English litera...
This dissertation shows that early modern female playwrights were shaped by and helped to shape comm...
This dissertation attempts to fill a void in early modern English drama studies by offering an in-d...
This doctoral thesis looks anew at the representation of women in the non-Shakespearean plays of ear...
The changes and upheaval in English society and in English ideas which took place during the sevente...
This dissertation reevaluates the role of early modern female libertines as sexual celebrities and a...
My dissertation considers how and why representations of female suffering in Restoration tragedy had...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-110).The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry ...
This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restora...
Only with the fairly recent advent of Women\u27s Studies have attempts been made to rediscover negle...
This dissertation reevaluates the role of early modern female libertines as sexual celebrities and a...
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century drama by women should be analyzed as a public disc...
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century drama by women should be analyzed as a public disc...
This thesis argues that censorship is central to early modern authorial self-construction and that t...
This dissertation looks at current theatre historiography in terms of pedagogy and performance pract...
My dissertation focuses on language and forms of expression for women in early modern English litera...
This dissertation shows that early modern female playwrights were shaped by and helped to shape comm...
This dissertation attempts to fill a void in early modern English drama studies by offering an in-d...
This doctoral thesis looks anew at the representation of women in the non-Shakespearean plays of ear...
The changes and upheaval in English society and in English ideas which took place during the sevente...
This dissertation reevaluates the role of early modern female libertines as sexual celebrities and a...
My dissertation considers how and why representations of female suffering in Restoration tragedy had...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-110).The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry ...
This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restora...