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Title: |
The Wonder |
| Sub-title: |
A Woman Keeps a Secret |
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| By (author): |
Susanna Centlivre Edited by: John O'Brien |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551114542 : 9781551114545 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
147 |
| Weight: |
.239 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - December 2003 |
| List Price: |
25.75 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 7 |
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| Susanna Centlivreâ 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 â secretâ : the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix) from Isabellaâ s father who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabellaâ s whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabellaâ s new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felixâ s intense jealousy. Centlivreâ 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 Centlivreâ s poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt). |
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