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Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-16443-5 311 $a0-415-16442-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 310-314) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction; Early commentaries; Introduction; Mary Sidney is Praised to Elizabeth I (1594); John Davies of Hereford Commends Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Cary (1612); William Sheares to Elizabeth Cary (1633); Jonson and Wroth (1640); Elizabeth Cary's Biography (1643 9); The Cavalier's Lady and her Plays (1872); The First Scholarly Edition of Mary Sidney's Antonie (1897); The First Modern Edition of Mariam (1914); Early Critical Recognition of Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish (1920); Woolf on Margaret Cavendish (1925) 327 $aVirginia Woolf on 'Judith Shakespeare' (1929)The First Edition of The Concealed Fancies (1931); Cary and 'A Woman's Duty' (1940); Mary Sidney: Philip's Sister (1957); Contexts and issues; Introduction; Women playwrights in England: Renaissance noblewomen NANCY COTTON; The Arts at the English Court of Anna of Denmark LEEDS BARROLL; 'My seeled chamber and dark parlour room': the English country house and Renaissance women dramatists MARION WYNNE-DAVIES; Women as patrons of English Renaissance drama DAVID M.BERGERON; Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers JEAN E.HOWARD 327 $aWomen as theatrical investors: three shareholders and the second Fortune Playhouse S.P.CERASANO'Why may not a lady write a good play?': plays by Early Modern women reassessed as performance texts GWENO WILLIAMS; Early Modern women dramatists; Introduction; 'We princes, I tell you, are set on stages': Elizabeth I and dramatic self-representation CAROLE LEVIN; Joanna Lumley (1537?-1576/77) ELAINE V.BEILIN; Jane Lumley's Iphigenia at Aulis: multum in parvo, or, less is more STEPHANIE HODGSON-WRIGHT; 'Patronesse of the Muses' MARGARET P.HANNAY 327 $aMary Herbert: Englishing a purified Cleopatra TINA KRONTIRISElizabeth Cary (1585 1639) ELAINE V.BEILIN; The spectre of resistance: The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) MARGARET W.FERGUSON; Resisting tyrants: Elizabeth Cary's tragedy BARBARA KIEFER LEWALSKI; An unknown continent: Lady Mary Wroth's forgotten pastoral drama, 'Loves Victorie' MARGARET ANNE MCLAREN; 'Like one in a gay masque': the Sidney cousins in the theaters of court and country GARY WALLER 327 $a'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'She gave you the civility of the house': household performance in The Concealed Fancies ALISON FINDLAY; 'My brain the stage': Margaret Cavendish and the fantasy of female performance SOPHIE TOMLINSON; 'A woman write a play!': Jonsonian strategies and the dramatic writings of Margaret Cavendish; or, did the duchess feel the anxiety of influence? 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