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Author:

Marsden, Jean I.

Title:

Fatal desire : women, sexuality, and the English stage, 1660-1720 / Jean I. Marsden.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

viii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism.
Women in the theater--England--History--17th century.
English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
Literature and society--England--History--17th century.
Sex role in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and indexes.

Contents:

Female spectatorship, Jeremy Collier, and the antitheatrical debate -- Women watching : the female spectator in late-seventeenth-century comedy -- Falling women : she-tragedy and sexual spectacle -- Women writing women : female authors of she-tragedy -- Nicholas Rowe and the second generation of she-tragedy -- Sex, politics, and the Hanoverian succession : refiguring Lady Jane Grey.

ISBN:

0801444470
9780801444470
9780801444470 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801444470 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005027429

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)