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Elizabeth Cooper'sThe Rival Widows, or Fair Libertineprovides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender.

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List of Illustrations Preface by the General Editors Acknowledgements Introduction The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine Appendix A: Elizabeth Cooper's Announcement of her Benefit Performance The Grub-Street Journal 226 (25 April 1734) Appendix B: Review of The Rival Widows The Prompter 34 (7 March 1735) Appendix C: Argument in Support of the Proposed Licensing Act The Daily Gazetteer (6 and 8 June 1737) Appendix D: Lord Chesterfield's Address to Parliament Against the Proposed Licensing Act Appendix E: The Licensing Act of 1737 Appendix F: Elizabeth Cooper's Preface to The Muses Library (1737) Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/2013
      ISBN13: 9781442615458, 978-1442615458
      ISBN10: 1442615451

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Elizabeth Cooper'sThe Rival Widows, or Fair Libertineprovides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Preface by the General Editors Acknowledgements Introduction The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine Appendix A: Elizabeth Cooper's Announcement of her Benefit Performance The Grub-Street Journal 226 (25 April 1734) Appendix B: Review of The Rival Widows The Prompter 34 (7 March 1735) Appendix C: Argument in Support of the Proposed Licensing Act The Daily Gazetteer (6 and 8 June 1737) Appendix D: Lord Chesterfield's Address to Parliament Against the Proposed Licensing Act Appendix E: The Licensing Act of 1737 Appendix F: Elizabeth Cooper's Preface to The Muses Library (1737) Bibliography Index

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