Rivall friendship / by Bridget Manningham ; edited by Jean R. Brink, with Mary Ellen Lamb and William F. Gentrup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manningham, Bridget, active 17th century, author.

Contributor:

Brink, J. R., editor.

Lamb, Mary Ellen, 1946- editor.

Gentrup, William F., 1953- editor.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 575.

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 575

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714--Fiction.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Romances.

Physical Description:

439 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Rival friendship

Place of Publication:

Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2021.

Summary:

"The manuscript for Rivall Friendship was first acquired by the Newberry Library in 1937. At the time of the acquisition, the author of this seventeenth-century romance was anonymous. Scholar Jean R. Brink now suggests, based on dating of the manuscript and her analysis of its feminist themes, that the author was a woman. Specifically, Brink attributes the text to Bridget Manningham, who was the older sister of Thomas Manningham, a Jacobean and Caroline bishop, and the granddaughter of John Manningham, a diarist who recorded performances of Shakespeare's plays. Rivall Friendship is a post-English Civil War romance that examines proto-feminist issues, such as patriarchal dominance in the family and marriage. Manningham is scrupulous about maintaining verisimilitude, and unlike more fantastical romances of the period that feature monsters, giants, and magic, this text aspires to a level of probability in its historical and geographical details. The text of Rivall Friendship is accessible to most modern readers, particularly to students and scholars accustomed to working with seventeenth-century texts."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Rivall friendship, part 1

Rivall friendship, part 2

The continuation of Arthenia's story

Appendices: Appendix 1. The Ellis family

Appendix 2. Fictional names of historical figures and places

Appendix 3. Identification of fictional characters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

ISBN:

9780866986335

0866986332

OCLC:

1263813745