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Informationen zum Autor Tiffany Potter teaches eighteenth-century British and American literature at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent book is the edited collection Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century. 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
