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The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735) (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735) (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
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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. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair, a
"glowing, joyous young Widow," the storyline regenders standard
expectations about desire, marriage, libertinism and sentiment. The
play has not been reprinted since 1735; therefore this old-spelling
edition gives scholars access to an important but neglected
resource for studies of women writers and eighteenth-century
theatre. In an original and extensive introduction, Tiffany Potter
presents cultural and historical information that highlights the
scholarly implications of this newly available play. She offers a
brief biographical sketch of the playwright; a summary of sources
for specific elements of the play; an overview of the theatrical
climate of the time (with particular focus on the conditions
leading to the Licensing Act of 1737); a discussion of the place of
women in eighteenth-century society; a summary of symbiotic
cultural discourses of libertinism and sensibility in the early
eighteenth century; and a discussion of the general cultural
significance of Cooper's demonstration of the malleability of
prescriptive gender roles. Further value is added to this edition
through its appendices, which reproduce documents relating to the
playwright Elizabeth Cooper and to the Licensing Act of 1737
(including the text of the Act itself).
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