{"product_id":"restoration-womens-drama-four-plays-1662-1677-volume-114-paperback","title":"Restoration Women's Drama: Four Plays, 1662-1677 Volume 114 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAphra Behn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrances Boothby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMargaret Cavendish\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis anthology of four plays written or performed between 1662 and 1677 offers a unique snapshot of the diverse nature of Restoration drama by women. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestoration Women's Drama\u003c\/i\u003e collects four Restoration plays by women: the highly acclaimed Katherine Philips, the successful professional Aphra Behn, the confidently original Margaret Cavendish, and the obscure pioneer Frances Boothby. This anthology includes Behn's only tragedy as well as the first printed edition of Boothby's \u003ci\u003eMarcelia\u003c\/i\u003e, the first play by a woman to be professionally staged in London, demonstrating the range of early modern drama produced by women in this period. An excellent introduction, it is poised to stimulate new discussions of women's authorship, theatrical knowledge, and literary affinities. Each play has been edited afresh, and each has been modernized and annotated to facilitate reading, teaching, and performance possibilities.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAphra Behn\u003c\/b\u003e (1640-89) was the most prolific female playwright of the Restoration and the first Englishwoman to make a living as a professional writer. Best known for her 1677 comedy \u003ci\u003eThe Rover\u003c\/i\u003e and for \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e, her 1688 novella of Atlantic slavery, she also published lyric poetry and translations from works in Latin and French. \u003ci\u003eAbdelazer\u003c\/i\u003e, her only tragedy, draws from existing early modern treatments of stage Moors, and offers a blend of received notions about black masculinity with a portrait of besieged royalty. \u003cb\u003eFrances Boothby\u003c\/b\u003e is known only by her play, \u003ci\u003eMarcelia\u003c\/i\u003e, and by a poem lamenting its apparent lack of success on the stage. However, \u003ci\u003eMarcelia\u003c\/i\u003e displays high levels of theatrical skill, and in 1669 her play was the first professional production by a woman on the London stage. \u003cb\u003eMargaret Cavendish\u003c\/b\u003e (1623-73) was a prolific author of poetry, prose fiction, letters, essays, natural philosophy, and plays. As a young woman, Cavendish was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria. During the English Civil War, she accompanied the Queen to Paris where she married the prominent royalist general William Cavendish, the Duke of Newcastle with whom she lived in exile until the Restoration of Charles II. Cavendish sought fame through her writing and used the medium of print to comment on the most pressing cultural, political, and philosophical issues of her day. \u003cb\u003eKatherine Philips\u003c\/b\u003e (1632-64) was a celebrated writer in her own time, a central figure in a literary coterie who was known by her coterie name Orinda. Her poetry ranged from poems addressed to her close female friends to those expressing her royalist sympathies. \u003ci\u003ePompey\u003c\/i\u003e, her translation of Pierre Corneille's \u003ci\u003eLa Mort de Pompée\u003c\/i\u003e, was supported by prominent political figures in Ireland and successfully produced in Dublin. It was published in both Dublin and London and was featured in the posthumously published folio edition of her works. \u003cb\u003eLara Dodds\u003c\/b\u003e is professor and head in the department of English at Mississippi State University. Her most recent book, coauthored with Michelle M. Dowd, is \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJoyce Green MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches courses on Renaissance literature. Her publications include work on Katherine Philips, Lady Mary Wroth, and Aphra Behn. \u003cb\u003ePaul Salzman\u003c\/b\u003e is emeritus professor at La Trobe University, Australia. He has published widely on early modern women's writing. \u003cb\u003eMihoko Suzuki\u003c\/b\u003e, professor emerita at the University of Miami, has published most recently \u003ci\u003eAntigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 420\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 8.99 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 25, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46492998926533,"sku":"9781649591371","price":137.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/CxY5BcBTeg9781649591371.webp?v=1783234148","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/restoration-womens-drama-four-plays-1662-1677-volume-114-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}