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In John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes, Paula de Pando offers the first monograph on Restoration playwright John Banks. De Pando analyses Banks’s civic model of she-tragedy in terms of its successful adaptation of early modern literary traditions and its engagement with contemporary political and cultural debates. Using Tudor queens as tragic heroes and specifically addressing female audiences, patrons and critics, Banks made women rather than men the subject of tragedy, revolutionising drama and influencing depictions of gender, politics, and history in the long eighteenth century.

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Paula de Pando, Ph.D. (University of Seville, 2010), is Associate Researcher at that university. She has published extensively on Restoration drama, including co-editing Durfey’s The Marriage-Hater Matched (University of Barcelona, 2014) and contributing to The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Literature: 1660-1789.

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