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Dr Sarah Burdett is Lecturer in English Literature at University College London, UK. She received her BA in English from the University of East Anglia and completed her MA and PhD at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York. Sarah has published work on female violence, practice-led theatre research, eighteenth-century Irish drama, and the Georgian actress, and has been awarded Research Fellowships from the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.
1. Introduction: The Armed Woman Enters
2. Unbrutifying Man': Armed Women and Male Reform in Elizabeth Inchbald's Dramas3. 'The Ruthless Queen': Lady Macbeth and Margaret of Anjou on the Post-Reign of Terror London Stage
4. 'The Merit of her Patriotism': Charlotte Corday in British Drama, 1794-1804
5. 'I Drew my Knife and in his Bosom Stuck it': Armed Heroines and Anglo-German Drama
6. 'Yet are Spain's Maids No Race of Amazons': Spain's Female Warriors in Anglo-European Drama
7. Epilogue: The Armed Woman Exits
