Fatal desire : women, sexuality, and the English stage, 1660-1720

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

Author/creator	Marsden, Jean I.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Description	viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and indexes.
LCCN	2005027429
ISBN	0801444470 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780801444470

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR698.W6 M27 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold