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Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology - the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women - had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage.
In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit.
Each of these English women, and the one American, Mercy Otis Warren, legitimized the profession of playwright for their sex. They were the genre's prolific women pioneers whose body of work has remained unmatched until the twentieth century.
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Lesbians' writings, American, Fiction, Lesbische liefde, American Erotic stories, Lesbians, Social life and customs, Frauenliteratur, Kurzgeschichte, American Short stories, Anthologie, Freundschaft, Frau, Women authors, American fiction, Friendship, Women, Lesbians' writings, Short stories, women authors, Fiction, lesbian, LGBTQ short storiesShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers
1994, Meridian
in English
0452011191 9780452011199
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Koppelman has anthologized a collection of stories that recount love and desire between women, all of which appeared in popular literary magazines during the second half of the 19th century. Though the stories are far from sexually explicit, the relationships that unfold--largely "Boston Marriages"--are passionate. Includes contributions by Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin.
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