TY - JOUR
T1 - On teaching A Bold Stroke for a Husband and other comedies by romantic women playwrights
AU - Purinton, Marjean D.
PY - 2006/7/1
Y1 - 2006/7/1
N2 - This essay delineates five theoretical approaches and several pedagogical strategies for teaching Hannah Cowley's comedy A Bold Stroke For A Husband (1783) as well as other comedies by the period's women playwrights, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The essay considers the play's Spanish setting as politicized and feminized space. It discusses performance and performative aspects of the play, such as Mary Robinson as Victoria and the implications of cross-dressing, disguise, masquerade, and play-acting. The tropes of science and medicine appear dominantly in Cowley's comedy, and the essay looks specifically at how "madness" is represented in the context of Georgian medical concepts about its emergent sex/gender system.
AB - This essay delineates five theoretical approaches and several pedagogical strategies for teaching Hannah Cowley's comedy A Bold Stroke For A Husband (1783) as well as other comedies by the period's women playwrights, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The essay considers the play's Spanish setting as politicized and feminized space. It discusses performance and performative aspects of the play, such as Mary Robinson as Victoria and the implications of cross-dressing, disguise, masquerade, and play-acting. The tropes of science and medicine appear dominantly in Cowley's comedy, and the essay looks specifically at how "madness" is represented in the context of Georgian medical concepts about its emergent sex/gender system.
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U2 - 10.1080/10509580600816835
DO - 10.1080/10509580600816835
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:61149599886
VL - 17
SP - 351
EP - 360
JO - European Romantic Review
JF - European Romantic Review
SN - 1050-9585
IS - 3
ER -