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• W60878387 abstract "In late 1696, Drury Lane staged The Female Wits, a burlesque that, despite its wholesale ridicule of one woman, became a catchall phrase for the three playwrights lumped together in its title. From the nineteenth century onwards, these writers, Delarivier Manley, Catharine Trotter, and Mary Pix, have been collectively known as the female wits, and inevitably considered together in critical studies (including, I must admit, my own). This collective classification has brought three often overlooked playwrights back into critical discussion, a definite boon. It has, however, also had more subtle negative consequences when critics seek to conflate the three writers and to make value judgments based on questionable criteria when their works do not mesh. In this case, of the three who constitute the female wits, two have been regarded with critical favor--especially for the ways in which they adhere to what we, in the later twentieth century, find critically and ideologically correct literature, while the third has been left to languish, as it were, in the shadow of her more celebrated colleagues. Ironically, Mary Pix, the female wit most successful as a playwright in her own time, is the figure most commonly overlooked or even maligned today. middle-class merchant's wife lacking the more extensive education of Manley and Trotter, she has been labeled unoriginal and a mental lightweight by critics in the twentieth century (Lock 30). Often considered by feminist critics to be conservative, Pix is described by Jacqueline Pearson, for example, as attempt[ing] to write in a gender-neutral way, but in fact this means assuming male viewpoints and stereotypes; on the other hand, and Manley have a more feminist vision and thus they, unlike Pix, succeed in producing sympathetic and vivid portraits of women (201). General histories of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, while less kind to Trotter and Manley, reserve their harshest criticism for Pix. Derek Hughes, for example, claims that Pix, especially in her comedies, distinguished herself as a upholder of male authority (419).(1) Yet this mental lightweight and slavish anti-feminist was a modest success in her own day, with at least two plays that were revived several times and a solid string of stageable plays to her credit. The discrepancy between Pix's contemporary success and her recent slide into disrepute suggests that our standards of literary achievement differ substantially from those of the late seventeenth century. Even The Female Wits grudgingly admits that Pix was a capable playwright. Discussing the Pix figure (Mrs. Wellfed) and her plays, Praiseall exclaims, A Bouncing Dame! [referring to her girth] But she has done some things well enough (11). This is hardly high praise, but in a burlesque where Delarivier Manley is ridiculed unmercifully for both her personal vanity and her absurd and antiquated style of writing and Catharine Trotter is portrayed as a conceited prig, the comment stands as a testament to the theatrical community's recognition of Pix's abilities. I suggest that the disparity between Pix's success in her own time and our late twentieth-century view of her lies in her ability to recognize and adjust to the changing demands of the literary marketplace. In order to make this modest claim for the commercial efficacy of Pix's plays, I examine Pix's first tragedy, Ibrahim, Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks (1696), in terms of its connections to emerging dramatic practices. At the time Pix wrote Ibrahim, theatrical conventions had changed significantly since the heroic tragedies of the Restoration. The tragedies and heroic dramas of the Restoration included sweeping portrayals of kings and empires, with larger-than-life characters sweating oaths on the competing claims of love and honor.(2) Although tragedies from the 1670s were frequently revived at the end of the seventeenth century, the heroic style was, at least, moribund. …" @default.
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• W60878387 title "Mary Pix's Ibrahim: The Woman Writer as Commercial Playwright" @default.
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