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."."
"A path-breaking investigation of how women’s wit was represented onstage by actresses and female dramatists [. . .] Beth Cortese’s analysis is invaluable for both scholars and practitioners."
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