Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre

Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn''s The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre''s The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then ...