Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama - Criticism, History, and Performance 1594-1998

Summary

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

Product details

• Assisted by: S. P. Cerasano (Editor), Marion Wynne-Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780415164429
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16442-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 816 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.