基本説明
Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the play's more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
Full Description
Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the psychological mechanisms of humor. Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
Contents
Preface Introduction: Funny Women 'Divertisement and Delight': Comedy, Contract, and Pleasure You Irreplaceable You: Behn's Unalienable Bodies and Comic Exchange Coming to Market: Centlivre and the Promise of Contract Rule, Britania: Women and the National Community in Cowley's Comedies Beyond the Law: Contract, Divorce, and Community in Inchbald's Comedies Epilogue
