Readings in renaissance women's drama : criticism, history, and performance, 1594-1998 / / edited by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 822/.3099287
• Soggetto topico: English drama - Women authors - History and criticism; English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism; Women and literature - England - History - 16th century; Women and literature - England - History - 17th century; English drama - 17th century - History and criticism; Renaissance - England
• Altri autori: CerasanoS. P Wynne-DaviesMarion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-314) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book 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) ; Virginia 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 ; Women 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 ; Mary 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 ; '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? JULIE SANDERS; Notes on contributors; Bibliography of secondary sources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 tod
• Titolo autorizzato: Readings in renaissance women's drama
• ISBN: 1-134-71186-7; 1-134-71187-5; 0-203-27365-6; 1-280-32988-2; 0-203-04906-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807402703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II