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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comed

📁 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

✍ Scott McMillin 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English

This Second Edition builds on its predecessorвЂ™s strengths by adding a sixth play, Aphra BehnвЂ™s The Rover, a comedy that has clearly come into prominence in recent years. The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The c

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Centur

📁 Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage

✍ Misty G. Anderson 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four women in England who enjoyed career-long success as comicplaywrights from 1670-1800. Their respective approaches to the body, contracts, nationalism, and divorce animate their comedies and provide comic comment

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Centur

📁 Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage

✍ Misty G. Anderson (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan US 🌐 English

Becoming centaur: eighteenth-century mas

📁 Becoming centaur: eighteenth-century masculinity and English horsemanship

✍ Mattfeld, Monica 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 The Pennsylvania State University Press 🌐 English

William Cavendish and Hobbesian horsemanship -- Riding houses and polite equestrianism -- Astley's amphitheatre -- Henry William Bunbury and the mock manuals of horsemanship.;"Explores the history of horse-human relationships over the long eighteenth century, and how these relationships in turn infl

Becoming centaur: eighteenth-century mas

📁 Becoming centaur: eighteenth-century masculinity and English horsemanship

✍ Mattfeld, Monica 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 The Pennsylvania State University Press 🌐 English

William Cavendish and Hobbesian horsemanship -- Riding houses and polite equestrianism -- Astley's amphitheatre -- Henry William Bunbury and the mock manuals of horsemanship.;"Explores the history of horse-human relationships over the long eighteenth century, and how these relationships in turn infl

Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Mas

📁 Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship

✍ Monica Mattfeld 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Penn State University Press 🌐 English

In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society. Men of the period used horses to transform themse