Renaissance Drama By Women: Texts and Documents - Texts and Documents

Zusatztext 'Renaissance Drama by Women will ... have an immediate and profound effect on the teaching of Renaissance drama. If ease of access! clarity of presentation! and interest of material are what is needed! the editors are likely to meet their goal of introducing "Renaissance theatre by women into the canon of English drama".' - Shakespeare Quarterly'This reasonably priced volume will make Renaissance women's writing generally available to students ... with its attractive presentation of texts and notes! [it] is ... to be welcomed for its recognition of a gap in Renaissance cultural history.' - Review of English Studies'An affordable! attractively presented collection of texts ... will be seized on with delight...' - New Theatre Quarterly'Few teachers of Renaissance literature will be able to resist the temptation to buy it ...' - Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor S.P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies Klappentext This work is a volume of plays and documents! demonstrating the wide range of theatrical activity in which women were involved during the Renaissance period. Zusammenfassung This unique volume of plays and documents demonstrates for the first time the wide range of theatrical activity in which women were involved during the Renaissance period. This is a true breakthrough for the study of women's literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Plays include: Love's Victory, The Concealed Fancies, The Tragedy of Marion and The Tragedy of Antonie

Product details

• Authors: S.p. (Colgate University Cerasano
• Assisted by: S.P. Cerasano (Editor), Marion Wynne-Davies (Editor), Wynne-Davies Marion (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.1995
• EAN: 9780415098076
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09807-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary studies: general, Anthologies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Gender studies: women and girls, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights