| This course will examine a series of plays written between 1662 and 1798, in order to explore i) the treatment of “women’s issues” such as the marriage market and forced marriage, ii) the gendered ways in which the playwrights publicly positioned themselves in their prefaces and elsewhere, iii) the critical reception of those plays which were produced and published, and iv) the factors which may have prevented the production or publication of Cavendish’s plays, at the beginning of the period, and Burney’s close to the end. |
