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English drama, Great Britain Civil War, 1642-1649, History, History and criticism, Literature and the war, War and literature, War in literature, Women and war in literature, Women authors, Women in literature, Women soldiers in literaturePlaces
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Women's war drama in England in the seventeenth century
2008, Cambria Press
in English
1604975237 9781604975239
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Table of Contents
Setting the scene: a contextual examination of women's drama in the early modern period
"Our pedantical servants, have given us up for a prey to the enemy": representations of female community in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The concealed fancies and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's the sociable companions
"The devil take this cursed plotting age": representations of female community in Aphra Behn's The rover and The feigned courtesans
"Shall only men be conquerors, and women slaves?": representations of female soldiers in Margaret Cavendish's Loves adventures and Bell in Campo
"Though she be no natural amazon, she's capable of all their martial flopperies": representations of female soldiers in Aphra Behn's The young king and The widow ranter
"Why Should we tear ourselves with Civil War?": representations of women as peacemakers in Katherine Philips' Pompey and Horace
"Never was a Civil War feared more than now": representations of women as peacemakers in Aphra Behn's The roundheads and The city heiress.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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