3. Falling Women: She-Tragedy and Sexual Spectacle

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Female Spectatorship, Jeremy Collier, and the Antitheatrical Debate 17
6. 2. Women Watching: The Female Spectator in Late-Seventeenth-Century Comedy 39
7. 3. Falling Women: She-Tragedy and Sexual Spectacle 60
8. 4. Women Writing Women: Female Authors of She-Tragedy 100
9. 5. Nicholas Rowe and the Second Generation of She-Tragedy 132
10. 6. Sex, Politics, and the Hanoverian Succession: Refiguring Lady Jane Grey 168
11. Afterword 192
12. Bibliography 195
13. Index of Plays Cited 207
14. General Index 209