The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735)

Herausgeber: Potter, Tiffany

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Cooper’s The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615458
• ISBN-10: 1442615451
• Artikelnr.: 39044623

Autorenporträt

By Mrs Elizabeth Cooper Edited by Tiffany Potter

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface by the General Editors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine
Appendix A: Elizabeth Cooper’s Announcement of her Benefit Performance
The Grub-Street Journal 226 (25 April 1734)
Appendix B: Review of The Rival Widows
The Prompter 34 (7 March 1735)
Appendix C: Argument in Support of the Proposed Licensing Act
The Daily Gazetteer (6 and 8 June 1737)
Appendix D: Lord Chesterfield’s Address to Parliament Against the Proposed
Licensing Act
Appendix E: The Licensing Act of 1737
Appendix F: Elizabeth Cooper’s Preface to The Muses Library (1737)
Bibliography
Index