Gambling with Women, Estates and Status in Long Eighteenth Century-Comedy
This article discusses gambling and inheritance as two types of property transfer presented on the long eighteenth-century stage and investigates the relationship each has with gender and social status. Comparing Aphra Behn’s The Lucky Chance (1685) with Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset Table (1705),...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/9834 |