Ramie Targoff

Gebundenes Buch

Shakespeare's Sisters

Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

Beschreibung

A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity by scholar and critically acclaimed author, Ramie Targoff.

Autor

Ramie Targoff

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 163mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781529404890
• ISBN-10: 1529404894
• Artikelnr.: 69485439

Rezensionen

Ramie Targoff has written a vivid, finely crafted portrait of four extraordinary Renaissance women whose writing, long buried in archives, defied all the rules. Mary Sidney's translations, Aemilia Lanyer's poems, Anne Clifford's diaries, and Elizabeth Cary's dramas contained radical messages of autonomy at a time when women had few legal rights and almost no access to education. Raised to keep quiet and obey their husbands, these writers kept diaries, created female heroines, and gave women starring roles on the stage and page. Targoff, an esteemed scholar of Renaissance literature, restores these women to the starring roles they deserve in this fresh, galavanting, and indispensable history of Renaissance England. Shakespeare's Sisters challenges and expands our historical memory in sweeping, cinematic prose. Scholarly storytelling at its finest. Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath