Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650–1750)
Author
Theresa Varney Kennedy
Content
xii + 201 pp., bibl., index
Publication date
2018
Publisher
New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
Publication notes
Revised dissertation, University of Maryland
Description
Examines heroines in women's works as four types—deliberative, dutiful, irrational, and bold and brazen—and makes comparisons with the passive or vengeful stereotypical characters written by male playwrights.
Main subject
Literature and Literary Criticism Theater
ISBN
9781472484543 (cloth); 9781317153368 (ebook)
Citation
Kennedy, Theresa Varney. Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650–1750). New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1063.
