Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-307) and indexes.
Contents:
Setting the scene : a contextual examination of women's drama in the early modern period -- Our pedantical servants, have given us up for a prey to the enemy : representations of female community in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The concealed fancies and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's The sociable companions -- The devil take this cursed plotting age : representations of female community in Aphra Behn's The rover and The feigned courtesans -- Shall only men be conquerors, and women slaves? : representations of female soldiers in Margaret Cavendish's Loves adventures and Bell in Campo -- Though she be no natural amazon, she's capable of all their martial fopperies : representations of female soldiers in Aphra Behn's The young king and The widow ranter -- Why should we tear ourselves with Civil War? : representations of women as peacemakers in Katherine Philips' Pompey and Horace -- Never was a Civil War feared more than now : representations of women as peacemakers in Aphra Behn's The roundheads and The city heiress.
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