Download or read book The Widow Ranter written by Aphra Behn and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her final play, Aphra Behn looks across the Atlantic and reimagines Bacon’s Rebellion, the notorious revolt whose participants took up arms against the government of colonial Virginia with the aim of driving the Indigenous population from the region. Heavily fictionalized and featuring a memorable cast of both heroic and comic characters, Behn’s long-neglected tragicomedy is an important and entertaining contribution to the catalogue of transatlantic and Restoration literature. This edition supplements the play with an informative introduction and a robust selection of historical documents that situate it in the context of the historical rebellion and of late-seventeenth-century discourses around empire and colonization.

Download or read book The Widow Ranter written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new critical edition of Aphra Behn's final play.

Download or read book The Widow Ranter Or The History of Bacon in Virginia written by Aphra Behn and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the last works of the first English woman novelist, probably written in 1687 or 1688. The play uses Nathaniel Bacon's 1676 rebellion in Virginia as a background for commenting on contemporary British politics. Almost no authentic information is provided about colonial America. Appended to the text of the play are 11 contemporary accounts of the rebellion, including ones by John Dryden, Thomas Glover, and Bacon himself. Well annotated with explanations of obsolete terms. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Widdow Ranter Or the History of Bacon in Virginia written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sir Patient Fancy The widow Ranter or the history of Bacon in Virginia The emperor of the moon The amorous prince The younger brother or the amorous jilt written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1724 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Literatures of America written by Myra Jehlen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 1143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that can now be read in their Atlantic context. By emphasizing the culture of empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, The English Literatures of America allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad.

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Download or read book Sir Patient Fancy The amorous prince The Widow Ranter The younger brothers or The amorous jilt written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Widow Ranter Or The History of Bacon in Virginia A Tragicomedy in Oroonoko the Rover and Other Works Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Janet Todd Penguin Classics written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Colonial Women written by Heidi Hutner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Women examines the women-as-land metaphor in English colonial dramatic literature of the seventeenth century, and looks closely at the myths of two historical native female figures--Pocahontas of Virginia and Malinche of Mexico--to demonstrate how these two stories are crucial to constructions of gender, race, and English nationhood in the drama and culture of the period. Heidi Hutner's interpretations of the figure of the native woman in the plays of Shakespeare, Fletcher, Davenant, Dryden, and Behn reveal how the English patriarchal culture of the seventeenth century defined itself through representations of native women and European women who have "gone native." These playwrights use the figure of the native woman as a symbolic means to stabilize the turbulent sociopolitical and religious conflicts in Restoration England under the inclusive ideology of expansion and profit. Colonial Women uncovers the significance of the repeated dramatic spectacle of the native women falling for her European seducer and exploiter, and demonstrates that this image of seduction is motivated by an anxiety-laden movement to reinforce patriarchal authority in seventeenth-century England.

Download or read book The Widows Might written by Vivian Bruce Conger and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early American society, one’s identity was determined in large part by gender. The ways in which men and women engaged with their communities were generally not equal: married women fell under the legal control of their husbands, who handled all negotiations with the outside world, as well as many domestic interactions. The death of a husband enabled women to transcend this strict gender divide. Yet, as a widow, a woman occupied a third, liminal gender in early America, performing an unusual mix of male and female roles in both public and private life. With shrewd analysis of widows’ wills as well as prescriptive literature, court appearances, newspaper advertisements, and letters, The Widows’ Might explores how widows were portrayed in early American culture, and how widows themselves responded to their unique role. Using a comparative approach, Vivian Bruce Conger deftly analyzes how widows in colonial Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Maryland navigated their domestic, legal, economic, and community roles in early American society.

Download or read book Brabbling Women written by Terri L. Snyder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers decreed that husbands could choose either to pay damages or to have their wives publicly ducked.But there was more at stake here. By examining women's use of language, Terri L. Snyder demonstrates how women resisted and challenged oppressive political, legal, and cultural practices in colonial Virginia. Contending that women's voices are heard most clearly during episodes of crisis, Snyder focuses on disorderly speech to illustrate women's complex relationships to law and authority in the seventeenth century.Ordinary women, Snyder finds, employed a variety of strategies to prevail in domestic crises over sexual coercion and adultery, conflicts over women's status as servants or slaves, and threats to women's authority as independent household governors. Some women entered the political forum, openly participating as rebels or loyalists; others sought legal redress for their complaints. Wives protested the confines of marriage; unfree women spoke against masters and servitude. By the force of their words, all strove to thwart political leaders and local officials, as well as the power of husbands, masters, and neighbors. The tactics colonial women used, and the successes they met, reflect the struggles for empowerment taking place in defiance of the inequalities of the colonial period.

Download or read book Dido s Daughters written by Margaret W. Ferguson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of literacy toward more vernacular forms of speech and writing. Fegurson's aim in this long-awaited work is twofold: to show that what counted as more valuable among these competing literacies had much to do with notions of gender, and to demonstrate how debates about female literacy were critical to the emergence of imperial nations. Looking at writers whom she dubs the figurative daughters of the mythological figure Dido—builder of an empire that threatened to rival Rome—Ferguson traces debates about literacy and empire in the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cary, and Aphra Behn, as well as male writers such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Wyatt. The result is a study that sheds new light on the crucial roles that gender and women played in the modernization of England and France.