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Eighteenth-century Women Dramatists

Pix, MaryCentlivre, Susannah(Contributions by)Cowley, Hannah(Contributions by)Findberg, Melinda(Contributions by)Griffith, Elizabeth(Contributions by)
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Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling.

Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of signficant areas. A splendid and imaginative project' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University

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Oxford University Press
0192827294 / 9780192827296
Paperback / softback
01/10/2001
United Kingdom
English
lxi, 380p.
20 cm
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Contents: The innocent mistress / Mary Pix - The busybody / Susanna Centlivre - The times / Elizabeth Griffith - The belle's stratagem / Hannah Cowley.