The Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women
By Unknown Author.
Description
This extraordinary edition includes seven full-length plays from the era, including an unproduced play by Frances Burney, unavailable for centuries.Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology—the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women—had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage. In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after y...
ISBN(s)
0452011108, 9780452011106
