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" Reading the Jewish woman on the Elizabethan stage / "
Michelle Ephraim
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BL
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| Record Number
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703754
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b525943
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| Main Entry
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Ephraim, Michelle
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| Title & Author
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Reading the Jewish woman on the Elizabethan stage /\ Michelle Ephraim
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| Publication Statement
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Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, [2008]
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, ©2008
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| Series Statement
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Women and gender in the early modern world
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x, 180 pages ;; 25 cm
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0754658155 (alk. paper)
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: 9780754658153 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-172) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : Elizabeth and the Jewish woman on stage -- The emerging female monarch in The Godly Queene Hester -- Maternal authority in The historie of Jacob and Esau -- The reader as voyeur : Thomas Garter's The virtuous and Godly Susanna and George Peele's The love of King David and fair Bethsabe -- Reading the sacrificed daughter in George Buchanan's Jephthes sive votum tragoedia -- "I'll sacrifice her on a pile of wood" : Abigail's roles in The Jew of Malta -- Her "flesh and blood"? : Jessica's mother in The merchant of Venice -- Epilogue : Jewish women, women writers, and Elizabeth's legacy
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism
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Jewish women in literature
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Jews in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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822/.3099287
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PR658.J4E64 2008
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