Feminist Comedy

WILLOW WHITE is assistant professor at the University of Alberta and her research focuses on English theatre and literature of the long eighteenth century with specialization in women writers, literatures of empire, and Indigeneity. She coedited A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (2022) with Tiffany Potter, and her work has appeared in such journals as Women's Writing and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her next research project, titled "The Theatrical Afterlives of Pocahontas and Cockacoeske: Representations and Resistance of Indigenous Women on the English Stage," has been awarded an Insight Development Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (June 2024-June 2026).

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Acknowledgments


Introduction 


1. Comic Resurgence: Catherine Clive


2. Musical Comedy: Frances Brooke


3. Laughter and Femininity: Frances Burney


4. The Satirical Seraglio: Hannah Cowley


5. Sentimental Comedy and Feminism: Elizabeth Inchbald


Conclusion: Feminist Comedy 250 Years Later


Appendix: Women’s Plays Staged in London’s Patent Theaters, 1750–1800

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