Marta Straznicky

Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700

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Produktbeschreibung

This study investigates the tradition of closet drama written and read by women in early modern England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780521841245
• ISBN-10: 0521841240
• Artikelnr.: 21728962

Autorenporträt

Marta Straznicky is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Privacy, play reading and performance
2. Jane Lumley: humanist translation and the culture of play reading
3. Elizabeth Cary: 'private' drama and print
4. Margaret Cavendish: the closing of the theatres and the politics of play reading
5. Anne Finch: authorship, privacy and the Restoration stage
Conclusion. 'Closet' drama: Private space, private stage, and gender
Bibliography.