No Slip-Shod Muse: A Performance Analysis of Some of Susanna Centlivre's Plays
Description:
In 1982, Richard C. Frushell urged the necessity for a critical study of Susanna Centlivre's plays. Since then, only a handful of books and articles briefly discuss herand many attempt wrongly to force her into various critical models.
Drawing on performativity models, my reading of several Centlivre plays (Love's Contrivance, The Gamester, The Basset-Table and A Bold Stroke for a Wife) asks the question, "What was it like to see these plays in performance?" Occupying somewhat uneasy ground be…
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Date:
May 2000
Creator:
Herrell, LuAnn R. Venden