 | Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660–1720 Subjects: English drama -- Restoration 1660–1700 -- History and criticism; Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century; English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Literature and soci; Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century--a period when for the first time female actors could perform in... Jean I. Marsden is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut; author of The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory ; and editor of The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth. |
