A bold stroke for a wife
by Susanna Centlivre
'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' is perhaps the finest example of Centlivre's masterful plotting of comic intrigue. The soldier Fainwell and Anne Lovely are in love, but their path to the altar is blocked by her guardians, each of whom has a different view of what sort of husband would make the right match. Fainwell resorts to disguises of social types. The play thus provides a wide range of opportunity for Centlivre to satirize Tory respectability, religious propriety and capitalist speculative greed - and to give voice to tolerance.
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Capitalism, Drama, Marriage, English drama (Comedy)Places
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A bold stroke for a wife: a comedy in five acts, with alterations and amendments ...
1800, West
in English
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