World As It Goes - A Comedy

Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley's works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction: The World as it Goes; Note on the Text; The World as It Goes: A Comedy; Reviews of The World as It Goes; Reviews of Second Thoughts Are Best, a Revised Version of The World as It Goes; Index.

About the author

William D. Brewer is professor of English at Appalachian State University, USA, and the author of Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters (2015).

Summary

Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.

Product details

• Authors: William D Brewer, William D. Brewer, Brewer William D.
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781839980480
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-048-0
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Anthem Studies in Theatre and; Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance; Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, 1780-1830; Gender and Culture in the Roma; Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, 1780–1830
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Drama, Europe, DRAMA / European / General, DRAMA / Women Authors, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama