Mary Wroth and Shakespeare (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Salzman, Paul; Wynne-Davies, Marion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book sets out to explore the ways in which Mary Wroth negotiated the discourses that are embedded in the Shakespearean canon in order to develop an understanding of her oeuvre based, not on influence and imitation, but on difference, originality and innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317655695
• Artikelnr.: 41784696

Autorenporträt

Paul Salzman is a Professor of English literature at La Trobe University, Australia. He has published extensively on early modern women's writing, including the monograph Reading Early Modern Women's Writing (2006). He has recently completed an on-line edition of Mary Wroth's poetry (http://wroth.latrobe.edu.au/) and is now working on an on-line edition of Love's Victory and a book on literature and politics in the 1620s. Marion Wynne-Davies holds the Chair of English Literature in the Department of English at the University of Surrey, UK. Her main areas of interest are Early Modern literature and women's writing. She has published two editions of primary material, Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents (1995) and Women Poets of the Renaissance (1998), as well as several collections of essays in the same field. She has published four monographs, Women and Arthurian Literature (1996), Sidney to Milton (2002), Women Writers of the English Renaissance: Familial Discourse (2007) and Margaret Atwood (2010); the next book, Memorialising Early Modern Women Writers will be published in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paul Salzman and Marion Wynne-Davies Part 1: Poetry,
Circulation, Influence 1. Sugared Sonnets among their Private Friends: Mary
Wroth and William Shakespeare Ilona Bell 2. Escaping the Void: Isolation,
Mutuality and Community in the Sonnets of Wroth and Shakespeare Clare R.
Kinney 3. Autumn 1604 - documentation and literary coincidence Penny
McCarthy 4. Mary Wroth and William Shakespeare: A Conversation in Sonnets
Gayle Gaskill Part 2: Genre and Gender 5. Absent Fathers: Mary Wroth's
Love's Victory and William Shakespeare's King Lear Marion Wynne-Davies 6.
Wroth's Love Victory as a Response to Shakespeare's Representation of
Gender Distinctions: with Special Reference to Romeo and Juliet Akiko
Kusunoki 7. Four Weddings, Two Funerals and Tragicomic Resurrection:
Love's Victory and Much Ado About Nothing Alison Findlay 8. Civility and
Extravagance in Timon of Athens and Urania Amelia Zurcher Part 3: Querying
Identity 9. Rosalind and Wroth: Tyranny and Domination Paul J. Hecht 10.
Love's Victory, Pastoral, Gender, and As You Like It Paul Salzman 11. As
She Likes It: Same-Sex Friendship and Romantic Love in Wroth and
Shakespeare Naomi J Miller Afterword Mary Ellen Lamb