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'... this is a useful study of the cultural life of four plays by pioneering professional women dramatists, which will be very helpful to students studying any aspects of Restoration drama, gender identities, or performance history.' University of Toronto Quarterly 'Women playwrights are beginning to receive the kind of attention that is their due. Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre, an important contribution to this emerging body of work, provides us with a careful study of the performance, production and reception histories of four plays by two of the leading playwrights of the age... excellent study.' The Scriblerian

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Nancy Copeland is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. Her edition of Susanna Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Husband was published by Broadview Press in 1995.

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