Mary Wroth, Aphra Behn et al.: Women and Gender in 17th-Century England

Women & gender in 17th-century England. Mary Wroth, Aphra Behn & others.

0:00 Introduction
0:14 Women challenging men's roles
0:30 Ben Jonson & male anxiety
0:54 "The Womanish Man"
1:04 Women free-born
1:20 Transvestitism
1:52 Lady Macbeth
2:15 Witches
2:45 Eve in the Bible
3:08 "The common scum of women"
3:37 Decline ...of chivalry
4:50 Powerful women
5:11 Samuel Butler and misogyny
6:00 Mary Barker and the rejected lover
6:47 Aphra Behn and male impotence
7:45 Mary Wroth and Urania
8:34 The torture of Limena
10:22 Eroticism in Urania
10:45 Unabashed sexuality
11:08 Aphra Behn reprise
11:30 Behn's Love Letters
11:46 Authorship issues
12:30 Epistolary novel
12:40 Marriages made in heaven?
13:50 Plot
14:26 Extract [reading]
18:44 Analysis
19:55 Taboos
20:18 Incest
23:01 Scandal
24:17 Conclusion
24:43 Abraham Cowley
25:10 Further reading

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