The Basset Table

The Basset Table
Author: Susanna Centlivre
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1770480544

The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. Meanwhile, Lady Reveller’s cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off to the bluff sea-captain Hearty. How can Lady Reveller be persuaded to forego the delights of gambling? And how can Valeria avoid an unwanted marriage? This witty play paints a seductive picture of the thrills of the Restoration gaming table and challenges contemporary stereotypes of the learned lady. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on female education, gambling, and writing for the stage, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critical writing on Centlivre and The Basset Table.

The Basset-Table

The Basset-Table
Author: Susanna Centlivre
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Basset-Table" by Susanna Centlivre. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Basset-Table

The Basset-Table
Author: Susanna Centlivre
Publisher: Gale ECCO, Print Editions
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2010-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781170446607

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT026847The dedication signed: Susannah Cent-Livre. A reissue of variant sheets of the 1735 edition, with a cancellans titlepage in red and black, with vertical chain-lines. The head-piece on p.11 is inverted.London: printed for W. Feales, 1736. 72p.: ill.; 12

Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama

Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama
Author: Alison Findlay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2006-10-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521839564

This study examines the playing spaces for early modern women's drama.

Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737

Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737
Author: Catie Gill
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781409400578

Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century drama. Paying special attention to literary innovation and sociopolitical changes, this book is a valuable tool for scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance, providing groundwork for future research and investigation.

“The Wandering Life I Led”

“The Wandering Life I Led”
Author: Susan Shifrin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009-05-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 144381184X

This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal—geographical—“border crossings” serve here as the starting point for an investigation of her and others’ elisions and transgressions of borders of all kinds. The authors lay out strategies for exploring the ways in which she crossed geographical, gendered, cultural, and—in scholarly terms—disciplinary boundaries, and in so doing, consider how an investigation of those border crossings can enhance our understanding of early modern cultural formation. The new work presented here by some of the most distinguished junior and senior scholars working today in the fields of history, art history, literary history, the history of theater, and the history of music promises to stimulate a broader scholarly discussion about early modern border-crossing and women’s places in the early modern period in general.