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Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-11-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Renaissance Drama By Women is a unique volume of plays and documents. For the first time, it demonstrates the wide range of theatrical activity in which women were involved during the Renaissance period. It includes full-length plays, a translated fragment by Queen Elizabeth I, a masque, and a substantial number of historical documents. With full and up-to-date accompanying critical material, this collection of texts is an exciting and invaluable resource for use in both the classroom and research. Special features introduced by the editors include: * introductory material to each play * modernized spellings * extensive notes and annotations * biographical essays on each playwright * a complete bibliography Methodically and authoritatively edited by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, Renaissance Drama by Women is a true breakthrough for the study of women's literature and performance.

Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1092

Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The new authority on English literature.

Women and Arthurian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Women and Arthurian Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This is the first full-length study of the role of women in Arthurian literature. It covers writing from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Covering the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Tennyson's Idylls, it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works and, finally, the Arthurian women writers of the twentieth century.

A Black British Canon?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

A Black British Canon?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-10-31
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  • Publisher: Springer

This much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips and Alison Donnell discuss the textual, political and cultural history of black British and the term 'black British' itself.

Gloriana's Face
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Gloriana's Face

Ten feminist-materialist explorations of the oppression of women in England from the early Renaissance to the 1650s, draw on women's place in courtesy books, royal office, drama, and other social, political, and literary arenas. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Editing Early Modern Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Editing Early Modern Women

This volume offers a new and comprehensive exploration of the theory and practice of editing early modern women's writing.

World-Making Renaissance Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

World-Making Renaissance Women

This collection affirms the shaping authority of early modern women in literature and culture, evident well beyond their own moment.

Early Modern Women Writers and Memorialization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Early Modern Women Writers and Memorialization

Considering the most recent scholarship on early modern English women writers, memorialisation discourses, and textual evocations of female subjectivity, this study brings together a radical evocation of otherness that serves to challenge the dominant political, religious and social discourses of the day.

Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-08-24
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme.

Shakespeare Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Shakespeare Studies

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred pages of essays and studies by critics from both hemispheres.