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