Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance

Herausgeber: Chalmers, Hero; Tomlinson, Sophie; Sanders, Julie

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9780719063398
• ISBN-10: 0719063396
• Artikelnr.: 35054832

Autorenporträt

Hero Chalmers is a freelance academic Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham Sophie Tomlinson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland

Inhaltsangabe

General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and references
Introduction The historical context The plays The texts Stage histories The
plays John Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase (ed. Sophie Tomlinson) James
Shirley, The Bird in a Cage (ed. Julie Sanders) Margaret Cavendish, The
Convent of Pleasure (ed. Hero Chalmers) Appendices A: Press variants B:
Commendatory verses to The Wild-Goose Chase (1652) Index