Rival Widows, Or Fair Libertine (1735)

Informationen zum Autor By Mrs Elizabeth Cooper Edited by Tiffany Potter Klappentext Elizabeth Cooper’s The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Zusammenfassung Elizabeth Cooper’s The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface by the General Editors Acknowledgements 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 Chesterfield’s 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

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Cooper, James Cooper, Tiffany Potter
• Assisted by: Tiffany Potter (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9781442615458
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1545-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Early Modern Englishwoman 1500; Early Modern Englishwoman 1500
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies