Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama (eBook, ePUB)

Criticism, History, and Performance 1594-1998
Redaktion: Cerasano, S. P.; Wynne-Davies, Marion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines:
* this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot
* specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics
* a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials
* a bibliography of secondary sources
Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134711864
• Artikelnr.: 42677206

Autorenporträt

S. P. Cerasano is in the English Department at Colgate University, and Marion Wynne-Davies is in the English Department at the University of Dundee. They co-edited Renaissance Drama by Women, published by Routledge, 1996.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I Early commentaries, Introduction 1 Mary Sidney is
Praised to Elizabeth I (1594) 2 Samuel Daniel to Mary Sidney (1594) 3 John
Davies of Hereford Commends Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Cary (1612) 4 William
Sheares to Elizabeth Cary (1633) 5 Jonson and Wroth (1640) 6 Elizabeth
Cary's Biography (1643-9) 7 Celebrating Several Ladies (1752) 8 The
Cavalier's Lady and her Plays (1872) 9 The First Scholarly Edition of Mary
Sidney's Antonie (1897) 10 Lumley's Play First Published (1909) 11 The
First Modern Edition of Mariam (1914) 12 Early Critical Recognition of
Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish (1920) 13 Woolf on Margaret Cavendish
(1925) 14 T.S.Eliot on Senecan Drama (1927) 15 Virginia Woolf on 'Judith
Shakespeare' (1929) 16 The First Edition of The Concealed Fancies (1931) 17
Cary and 'A Woman's Duty' (1940) 18 Mary Sidney: Philip's Sister (1957)
PART II Contexts and issues, Introduction 1 Women playwrights in England:
Renaissance noblewomen 2 The Arts at the English Court of Anna of Denmark 3
'My seeled chamber and dark parlour room': the English country house and
Renaissance women dramatists 4 Women as patrons of English Renaissance
drama 5 Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers 6 Women as
theatrical investors: three shareholders and the second Fortune Playhouse 7
'Why may not a lady write a good play?': plays by Early Modern women
reassessed as performance texts PART III Early Modern women dramatists,
Introduction ELIZABETH I 1 'We princes, I tell you, are set on stages':
Elizabeth I and dramatic self-representation JANE/JOANNA LUMLEY 2 Joanna
Lumley (1537?-1576/77) ELAINE V. BEILIN 3 Jane Lumley's Iphigenia at Aulis:
multum in parvo, or, less is more 4 'Patronesse of the Muses' MARGARET P.
HANNAY 5 Mary Herbert: Englishing a purified Cleopatra ELIZABETH CARY 6
Elizabeth Cary (1585-1639) 7 The spectre of resistance: The Tragedy of
Mariam (1613) MARGARET W. FERGUSON 8 Resisting tyrants: Elizabeth Cary's
tragedy BARBARA KIEFER LEWALSKI 9 An unknown continent: Lady Mary Wroth's
forgotten pastoral drama, 'Loves Victorie' MARGARET ANNE MCLAREN 10 'Like
one in a gay masque': the Sidney cousins in the theaters of court and
country JANE CAVENDISH AND ELIZABETH BRACKLEY 11 'To be your daughter in
your pen': the social functions of literature in the writings of Lady
Elizabeth Brackley and Lady Jane Cavendish MARGARET J.M. EZELL 12 'She gave
you the civility of the house': household performance in The Concealed
Fancies MARGARET CAVENDISH 13 'My brain the stage': Margaret Cavendish and
the fantasy of female performance 14 'A woman write a play!': Jonsonian
strategies and the dramatic writings