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970752
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b725122
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Readings in renaissance women's drama : : criticism, history, and performance, 1594-1998 /\ edited by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2002.
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1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages)
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0203273656
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: 9780203273654
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Part 1. Early commentaries. Mary Sidney is praised to Elizabeth I ; Samuel Daniel to Mary Sidney ; John Davies of Hereford commends Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Cary ; William Sheares to Elizabeth Cary ; Jonson and Wroth ; Elizabeth Cary's biography ; Celebrating several ladies ; The cavalier's lady and her plays ; The first scholarly edition of Mary Sidney's Antonie ; Lumley's play first published ; The first modern edition of Mariam ; Early critical recognition of Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish ; Woolf on Margaret Cavendish ; T.S. Eliot on Senecan drama ; Virginia Woolf on "Judith Shakespeare" ; The first edition The Concealed Fancies ; Cary and "A Woman's Duty" ; Mary Sidney : Philip's sister.
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Part 2. Contexts and issues. 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.
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Part 3 [continued]. "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.
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Part 3. Early modern women dramatists. "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 Krontiris -- Elizabeth 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.
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English drama-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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Renaissance-- England.
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Women and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Women and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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DRAMA-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
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English drama-- Women authors.
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English drama.
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Renaissance.
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Women and literature.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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822/.3099287
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PR658.W6R43 2002eb
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Cerasano, S. P.
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Wynne-Davies, Marion.
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