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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 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 Edited By S.p. Cerasano And Marion Wynne-davies. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 310-314) And Index. English