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Adapting Aphra Behn : Hannah Cowley's "A school for greybeards" and "The lucky chance"
Verfasst von:
Spencer, Jane
in:
Wallingford:
1995
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221 - 234 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Spencer, Jane |
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| Jahr: | 1995 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Recent accounts suggest that eighteenth-century women writers gained their respectability in part through a repudiation of Aphra Behn and what she stood for. Through an analysis of hannah Cowley's "A School for Greybeards", an adaptation of Behn's "The Lucky Chance", this article argues that Cowley, though embarrassed to name Behn, was far from repudiating her. She sought to develop a role for the female playwright in eighteenth-century culture similar to Behn's in the seventeenth century: as a theatrical entertainer and a social critic concentrating on marriage customs. Audience objections to "A School for Greybeards" and Cowley's subsequent revisions, show the constraints put on such social critique in the late eighteenth-century theatre. Comparison of the two plays also shows Cowley's development of theatrically dominant, sentimentalised roles for women in comedy. The article demonstrates the mixed effects of sentimentalisation on female roles in comedy and on female playwrights. | |
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