Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth - Centur

Informationen zum Autor Bonnie Nelson is associate professor of English at Kansas State University. She is the winner of two Excellence in Teaching Awards from the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the department's SAGE award for graduate teaching. She has published in such periodicals as Theatre Survey , Keats-Shelley Journal , and Women's Writing . Catherine Burroughs is Ruth and Albert Koch Professor of Humanities at Wells College and visiting lecturer in English at Cornell University. Her publications include Reading the Social Body ; Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers ; and Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840 . Klappentext The considerable contributions of British women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century! long unavailable! have now inspired numerous anthologies! editions! and modern-day productions. As these works continue to gain recognition and secure a more prominent place in college curriculums! teachers face the challenge of introducing these rediscovered works to students and explaining how they fit into the period's dramatic tradition. This volume aims to help instructors present a clearer sense of this body of work in the undergraduate and graduate classroom.The volume opens with background essays on the history of women in theater! including the first appearance

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• Authors: Bonnie (EDT) Nelson
• Assisted by: Catherine Burroughs (Editor), Catherine B Burroughs (Editor), Catherine B. Burroughs (Editor), Bonnie Nelson (Editor), Bonnie R. Nelson (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2010
• EAN: 9781603290838
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-083-8
• Series: Options for Teaching; Options for Teaching (Paperbac; Options for Teaching 30; Options for Teaching 30; Options for Teaching; Options for Teaching (Paperbac
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories