Author: John Bell
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
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British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife
Author: John Bell
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Pages : 488
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A Bold Stroke for a Wife
Author: Susanna Centlivre
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551110219
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre’s comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of ‘the female pen,’ and to pay as much attention to the playwright’s marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves. Only in recent years has Centlivre come to be recognized quite straightforwardly as one of the most brilliant playwrights of her time. A Bold Stroke for a Wife is perhaps the finest example of Centlivre’s masterful plotting of comic intrigue. The soldier Fainwell and Anne Lovely are in love, but their path to the altar is blocked by her guardians, each of whom has a different view of what sort of husband would make the right match. Fainwell resorts to disguises of social types. The play thus provides a wide range of opportunity for Centlivre to satirize Tory respectability, religious propriety and capitalist speculative greed—and to give voice to tolerance: ‘tis liberty of choice that sweetens life.’ Yet in the end it is Centlivre’s comic muse that gives enduring life to the play as one of the most entertaining of eighteenth-century comedies.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551110219
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre’s comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of ‘the female pen,’ and to pay as much attention to the playwright’s marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves. Only in recent years has Centlivre come to be recognized quite straightforwardly as one of the most brilliant playwrights of her time. A Bold Stroke for a Wife is perhaps the finest example of Centlivre’s masterful plotting of comic intrigue. The soldier Fainwell and Anne Lovely are in love, but their path to the altar is blocked by her guardians, each of whom has a different view of what sort of husband would make the right match. Fainwell resorts to disguises of social types. The play thus provides a wide range of opportunity for Centlivre to satirize Tory respectability, religious propriety and capitalist speculative greed—and to give voice to tolerance: ‘tis liberty of choice that sweetens life.’ Yet in the end it is Centlivre’s comic muse that gives enduring life to the play as one of the most entertaining of eighteenth-century comedies.
A Bold Stroke for a Wife
Author: Susannah Centlivre
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The British Drama
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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The British Theatre
Author: Mrs. Inchbald
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Bell's British Theatre
Author: John Bell
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Cumberland's British Theatre
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
Author: Middle Temple (London, England). Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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British theatre, comprising tragedies, comedies, operas, and farces; with biogr., critical account and notes, by an Englishman [O. Williams].
Author: British theatre
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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