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Goddesses, mages, and wise women : the female pastoral guide in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English drama / Sharon Rose Yang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Sharon R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pastoral drama, English--History and criticism.
- Pastoral drama, English.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Selinsgrove, PA : Susquehanna University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- The early guide as "the light in the sky"
- Mages and sages versus the witch
- Queens and goddesses: Endymion, Midsummer night's dream, and Love's victory
- The pastoral guide: the mage and female scholar
- The faithful shepherdess: handmaiden of the great god Pan
- Subversive wise woman: the doctor she of All's well that ends well
- "Curing by counsel": Rosalind of As you like it
- "And afterwards".
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-57591-169-8
- OCLC:
- 754144166
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