New Lines: Mary Ann Yates, The Orphan of China, and the New She-tragedy

This essay demonstrates a significant break in eighteenth-century tragedy from tales of fallen women begging (the audience) for forgiveness and redemption to a different kind of she-tragedy, in which the heroine is neither fallen nor sexually desired, but rather transcends nation and politics with t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elaine McGirr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aphra Behn Society 2018-11-01
Series:ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830
Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol8/iss2/1/