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LEADER: 02176nam a22003258a 4500
001 2008011280
003 DLC
005 20080319180634.0
008 080317s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008011280
020 $a9781604975239 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR678.W6$bL53 2008
082 00 $a822/.309$222
100 1 $aLiddy, Brenda Josephine.
245 10 $aWomen's war drama in England in the seventeenth century /$cBrenda Josephine Liddy.
260 $aYoungstown, N.Y. :$bCambria Press,$c2008.
263 $a0804
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSetting 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.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yCivil War, 1642-1649$xLiterature and the war.
650 0 $aWar and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aWomen soldiers in literature.
650 0 $aWar in literature.
650 0 $aWomen and war in literature.