Florentine drama for convent and festival : seven sacred plays / Antonia Pulci ; annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook ; edited by James Wyatt Cook and Barbara Collier Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulci, Antonia, 1452-1501.

Contributor:

Cook, James Wyatt, 1932-

Cook, Barbara Collier.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

Other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Works. English. 1996

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pulci, Antonia, 1452-1501--Translations into English.

Pulci, Antonia.

Religious drama, Italian--Translations into English.

Religious drama, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni-one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers. Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ANTONIA PULCI AND HER PLAYS

THE PLAY OF SAINT FRANCIS COMPOSED BY LADY ANTONIA, WIFE OF BERNARDO PULCI

THE PLAY OF SAINT [FLAVIA] DOMITILLA

THE PLAY OF SAINT GUGLIELMA

THE PLAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON

THE PLAY OF SAINT ANTHONY THE ABBOT

THE PLAY OF SAINT THEODORA Attributed to Antonia Pulci

THE PLAY AND FESTIVAL OF ROSANA

THE SECOND PART OF THE FESTIVAL OF ULIMENTUS AND OF ROSANA Attributed to Antonia Pulci

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-46) and index.

ISBN:

9786611126001

9781281126009

1281126004

9780226685182

0226685187

OCLC:

476228347