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Readings in renaissance women's drama : criticism, history, and performance, 1594-1998 / edited by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cerasano Wynne-Davie Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot * specially-commissioned new essays by some of tod
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction; Early commentaries; Introduction; Mary Sidney is Praised to Elizabeth I (1594); John Davies of Hereford Commends Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Cary (1612); William Sheares to Elizabeth Cary (1633); Jonson and Wroth (1640); Elizabeth Cary's Biography (1643 9); The Cavalier's Lady and her Plays (1872); The First Scholarly Edition of Mary Sidney's Antonie (1897); The First Modern Edition of Mariam (1914); Early Critical Recognition of Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish (1920); Woolf on Margaret Cavendish (1925)
- Virginia Woolf on 'Judith Shakespeare' (1929)The First Edition of The Concealed Fancies (1931); Cary and 'A Woman's Duty' (1940); Mary Sidney: Philip's Sister (1957); Contexts and issues; Introduction; Women playwrights in England: Renaissance noblewomen NANCY COTTON; The Arts at the English Court of Anna of Denmark LEEDS BARROLL; 'My seeled chamber and dark parlour room': the English country house and Renaissance women dramatists MARION WYNNE-DAVIES; Women as patrons of English Renaissance drama DAVID M.BERGERON; Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers JEAN E.HOWARD
- Women as theatrical investors: three shareholders and the second Fortune Playhouse S.P.CERASANO'Why may not a lady write a good play?': plays by Early Modern women reassessed as performance texts GWENO WILLIAMS; Early Modern women dramatists; Introduction; 'We princes, I tell you, are set on stages': Elizabeth I and dramatic self-representation CAROLE LEVIN; Joanna Lumley (1537?-1576/77) ELAINE V.BEILIN; Jane Lumley's Iphigenia at Aulis: multum in parvo, or, less is more STEPHANIE HODGSON-WRIGHT; 'Patronesse of the Muses' MARGARET P.HANNAY
- Mary Herbert: Englishing a purified Cleopatra TINA KRONTIRISElizabeth Cary (1585 1639) ELAINE V.BEILIN; The spectre of resistance: The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) MARGARET W.FERGUSON; Resisting tyrants: Elizabeth Cary's tragedy BARBARA KIEFER LEWALSKI; An unknown continent: Lady Mary Wroth's forgotten pastoral drama, 'Loves Victorie' MARGARET ANNE MCLAREN; 'Like one in a gay masque': the Sidney cousins in the theaters of court and country GARY WALLER
- 'To be your daughter in your pen': the social functions of literature in the writings of Lady Elizabeth Brackley and Lady Jane Cavendish MARGARET J.M.EZELL'She gave you the civility of the house': household performance in The Concealed Fancies ALISON FINDLAY; 'My brain the stage': Margaret Cavendish and the fantasy of female performance SOPHIE TOMLINSON; 'A woman write a play!': Jonsonian strategies and the dramatic writings of Margaret Cavendish; or, did the duchess feel the anxiety of influence? JULIE SANDERS; Notes on contributors; Bibliography of secondary sources; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-71186-7
- 1-134-71187-5
- 0-203-27365-6
- 1-280-32988-2
- 0-203-04906-3
- 9780203049068
- OCLC:
- 166335005
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