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Item Details
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THE WONDER
A WOMAN KEEPS A SECRET |
| By: |
Susannah Centlivre |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£23.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1551114542 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781551114545 |
| Publisher: |
BROADVIEW PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2003 |
| Description: |
"John O'Brien's excellent edition of The Wonder makes accessible one of the most performed plays of the eighteenth century." -- Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Synopsis: |
Susanna Centlivre's play The Wonder (1714) was one of the most popular works on the eighteenth-century English stage. Set in Lisbon, the plot interweaves two romantic intrigues around one "secret": the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix) from Isabella's father who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabella's whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabella's new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felix's intense jealousy. Centlivre's critique on the tyrannical patriarchs in the world of the play is at the same time a veiled critique of similar conditions in Augustan-era Britain. This Broadview edition includes contemporary responses (by Richard Steele and Arthur Bedford), biographical accounts, selections of Centlivre's poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt). |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Broadview Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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