Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama:

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 sourcesPlaywrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Permissions	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Early commentaries	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Mary Sidney is Praised to Elizabeth I (1594)	p. 10
Samuel Daniel to Mary Sidney (1594)	p. 10
John Davies of Hereford Commends Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Cary (1612)	p. 13
William Sheares to Elizabeth Cary (1633)	p. 14
Jonson and Wroth (1640)	p. 15
Elizabeth Cary's Biography (1643-9)	p. 16
Celebrating Several Ladies (1752)	p. 16
The Cavalier's Lady and her Plays (1872)	p. 17
The First Scholarly Edition of Mary Sidney's Antonie (1897)	p. 18
Lumley's Play First Published (1909)	p. 18
The First Modern Edition of Mariam (1914)	p. 19
Early Critical Recognition of Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish (1920)	p. 20
Woolf on Margaret Cavendish (1925)	p. 21
T. S. Eliot on Senecan Drama (1927)	p. 21
Virginia Woolf on 'Judith Shakespeare' (1929)	p. 23
The First Edition of The Concealed Fancies (1931)	p. 24
Cary and 'A Woman's Duty' (1940)	p. 26
Mary Sidney: Philip's Sister (1957)	p. 27
Contexts and issues	p. 29
Introduction	p. 31
Women playwrights in England: Renaissance noblewomen	p. 32
The Arts at the English Court of Anna of Denmark	p. 47
'My seeled chamber and dark parlour room': the English country house and Renaissance women dramatists	p. 60
Women as patrons of English Renaissance drama	p. 69
Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers	p. 81
Women as theatrical investors: thrre shareholders and the second Fortune Playhouse	p. 87
'Why may not a lady write a good play?': plays by Early Modern women reassessed as performance texts	p. 95
Early Modern women dramatists	p. 109
Introduction	p. 111
Elizabeth I
'We princes, I tell you, are set on stages': Elizabeth I and dramatic self-representation	p. 113
Jane/Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley (1537?-1576/77)	p. 125
Jane Lumley's Iphigenia at Aulis: multum in parvo, or, less is more	p. 129
Mary Sidney
'Patronesse of the Muses'	p. 142
Mary Herbert: Englishing a purified Cleopatra	p. 156
Elizabeth Cary
Elizabeth Cary (1585-1639)	p. 167
The spectre of resistance: The Tragedy of Mariam (1613)	p. 182
Resisting tyrants: Elizabeth Cary's tragedy	p. 194
Mary Wroth
An unknown continent: Lady Mary Wroth's forgotten pastoral drama, 'Loves Victorie'	p. 219
'Like one in a gay masque': the Sidney cousins in the theaters of court and country	p. 234
Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley
'To be your daughter in your pen': the social functions of literature in the writings of Lady Elizabeth Brackley and Lady Jane Cavendish	p. 246
'She gave you the civility of the house': household performance in The Concealed Fancies	p. 259
Margaret Cavendish
'My brain the stage': Margaret Cavendish and the fantasy of female performance	p. 272
'A woman write a play!': Jonsonian strategies and the dramatic writings of Margaret Cavendish; or, did the duchess feel the anxiety of influence?	p. 293
Notes on contributors	p. 306
Bibliography of secondary sources	p. 310
Index	p. 315
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Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama: Criticism, History, and Performance 1594-1998

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