Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Fryett, Sarah Elise
Author's Email Address	sef6841@fsu.edu
URN	etd-11082005-155133
Title	Displacing the Bourgeois Ideal: Susannah Centlivre and Female Friendship
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Helen Burke Committee Chair Nancy Warren Committee Member Sheila Ortiz-Taylor Committee Member
Keywords	Friendship Susannah Centlivre Bourgeois
Date of Defense	2005-04-12
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis discusses female friendship in three plays, by a prolific dramatist of eighteenth century England, Susannah Centlivre. I extend recent feminist criticism of Centlivre through an in depth analysis of how female friendship transforms patriarchal institutions. I argue that Centlivre’s writing reconstructs the emergent bourgeois ideal that supported fraternity and found women to be weak and emotionally unstable. I examine female friendship throughout The Beau’s Duel, The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret, and The Artifice to show that Centlivre’s radical feminist writing creates agency, for women, through friendship.
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