THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Juana Inés De La Cruz, Anna Cora Mowatt, Royal Opera House
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Atomic farmgirl, and a brief narrative on an extraordinary birth of rabbits. Hrotsvitha of gandersheim: c. 935 a. d. after 973 a. d, 10th century german secular cannoness, dramatist and poet who lived at gandersheim. Wedding gala of 1589 in florence: her plays explored and questioned women"s position in society at that time. Printed (1668: cavendish"s play, the convent of pleasure is about a group of unmarried women who choose to avoid the pains of men and marriage by creating their own community. Vere street theatre in london: became the lover of prince rupert, duke of cumberland (also known as rupert of the. Rhine : she left the stage for him in 1669 or 1670, returning for one season with the. Age: wrote poetry and prose dealing with such topics as love, feminism and religion, her criticism of misogyny and the hypocrisy of men led to her condemnation by the.
