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- Title
Out of the Closet and int Out of the Closet and into the Classr o the Classroom: Teaching Anne Finch eaching Anne Finch's Plays.
- Authors
Solomon, Diana
- Abstract
The publication of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea makes it possible to teach not only a much wider assorted of her edited poetry, but also Finch’s two dramas: the tragicomedy The Triumphs of Love and Innocence, and the tragedy Aristomenes. This essay proposes integrating Finch’s plays into a course on Restoration and eighteenth-century drama by proposing a class, “Genre Trouble,” which sets them in dialogue with frequently-taught plays of the era. Included herein are a syllabus of primary and secondary sources, suggestions for discussing Finch’s plays and dramatic paratexts in comparison to works by Behn, Centlivre, Dryden, Otway, Rowe, and Wycherley, and a lesson plan that enables students to investigate differences between “closet” and professionally staged drama and understand how a playwright’s gender figures into this divide.
- Subjects
FINCHES; CLOTHES closets; PARATEXT; LESSON planning; CLASSROOMS
- Publication
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2157-7129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5038/2157-7129.14.1.1373