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Women's Wit on the Early Modern Stage

by Beth Cortese

Paperback

$37.95

Hardback

$130.00

eBook (ePub)

$37.95

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Price:: $37.95
ISBN:: 9781644534373
Published:: Oct 13, 2026

Release Date:: 13th October 2026
Publisher:: University of Delaware Press
Imprint:: University of Delaware Press
Series:: Early Modern Feminisms
Pages:: 196

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Women's Wit on the Early Modern Stage expands the view of wit in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama beyond repartee to include the interplay between verbal and physical forms in comedies, tragedies, and tragicomedies, placing wit in a theatrical and embodied context. Through wit, women characters, playwrights, and performers expressed a feminized perspective that questioned gender stereotypes and resisted patriarchal authority."."

Related topics: American Literary Criticism / Drama, American Literary Criticism / Humor