Table of Contents
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1: Setting the Scene: A Contextual Examination of Women’s Drama in the Early Modern Period |
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Chapter 2: “Our Pedantical Servants, Have Given Us Up for a Prey to the Enemy”: Representations of Female Community in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley’s The Concealed Fancies and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s The Sociable Companions |
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Chapter 3: “The Devil Take This Cursed Plotting Age”: Representations of Female Community in Aphra Behn’s The Rover and The Feigned Courtesans |
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Chapter 4: “Shall Only Men Be Conquerors, and Women Slaves?”: Representations of Female Soldiers in Margaret Cavendish’s Loves Adventures and Bell in Campo |