Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance

A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'.

List of contents

General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and references
Introduction
The historical context
The plays
The texts
Stage histories
The plays
John Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase (ed. Sophie Tomlinson)
James Shirley, The Bird in a Cage (ed. Julie Sanders)
Margaret Cavendish, The Convent of Pleasure (ed. Hero Chalmers)
Appendices
A: Press variants
B: Commendatory verses to The Wild-Goose Chase (1652)
Index

About the author

Hero Chalmers is a freelance academicJulie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of NottinghamSophie Tomlinson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland

Product details

• Assisted by: Hero Chalmers (Editor), Chalmers Hero (Editor), Julie Sanders (Editor), Sophie Tomlinson (Editor), Tomlinson Sophie (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780719063398
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6339-8
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations, black & white
• Series: Revels Plays Companion Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama