The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735)

ISBN-13: 9780754654780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str.

Tiffany Potter

Opis

Elizabeth Cooper's "The Rival Widows" provides an opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with significant implications for studies of 18th-century history, culture and gender. This book presents cultural and historical information that highlights the scholarly implications of this play.

Recenzje

'This edition also offers relevant and useful historical materials, such as an early review of The Rival Widows, arguments for and against the Licensing Act, the actual text of the Act, and Cooper’s preface to the anthology of poetry she edited, etc. The explanatory footnotes accompanying the comedy are painstakingly thorough; the elucidation of allusions provides a trove of information about eighteenth-century daily life. [...]Potter’s editorial approach to presenting this comedy to contemporary readers is to preserve absolute fidelity to the first and only printing of The Rival Widows.' Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research

Spis treści

Contents: General editors' preface; 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 Chesterfields 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.

O autorze

Tiffany Potter teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research addresses issues of gender, sexuality, and race in the eighteenth-century, with special interest in cultures of libertinism in England and ideas of femininity and indigeneity in North America.