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The Women Writers Collection

Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights 

‘In contextualizing these women playwrights in the larger, mixed-gender tradition of the theatre, Hughes maps a shift in the political climate dating from Jeremy Collier’s 1698 polemic against stage "profaneness" and post-Revolutionary depictions of tyranny that changed the representation of authority on the stage.... Hughes does indeed locate some feminist themes, particularly suggesting that female dramatists satirize learned ladies for the misdirection of intellect, not, as male dramatists tend to do, for intellectualism itself, and he shows that women sometimes portrayed courtship angrily as sexual tyranny.’
- Barbara M Benedict, Studies in English Literature

Database Language: English 

Contents:  The database includes works by Manley, Haywood, Pix, Trotter, Centlivre, Griffith, Cowley, Inchbald, and reproduces the following edition:
 

License Pricing

18th Century Women Playwrights		CD-ROM	Web Server	SGML	Credit
Individual		$240	n/a	n/a	n/a
Institutional		$600	n/a	n/a	n/a
Campus-wide		$1,200	$1,200	call	n/a
ISBN#	Windows	1-57085-418-1	1-57085-555-2	n/a
	Macintosh	1-57085-475-0

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