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- catalog abstract ""Susanna Centlivre'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 "secret": the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix), from Isabella's father, who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabella's whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabella's new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felix's intense jealousy. Centlivre'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 Centlivre's poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt)."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Woman keeps a secret".
- catalog contributor b13063078.
- catalog contributor b13063079.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Susanna Centlivre'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 "secret": the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix), from Isabella's father, who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabella's whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabella's new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felix's intense jealousy. Centlivre'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 Centlivre's poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt)."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147).".
- catalog extent "147 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Wonder.".
- catalog identifier "1551114542 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wonder.".
- catalog isPartOf "Broadview literary texts".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, N.Y. : Broadview Press,".
- catalog relation "Wonder.".
- catalog subject "822/.5 22".
- catalog subject "Arranged marriage Drama.".
- catalog subject "Female friendship Drama.".
- catalog subject "PR3339.C6 A78 2004".
- catalog title "The wonder : a woman keeps a secret / Susanna Centlivre ; edited by John O'Brien.".
- catalog title "Woman keeps a secret".
- catalog type "Comedies. gsafd".
- catalog type "Drama. fast".
- catalog type "text".