| Description |
ix, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-360). |
| Contents |
Placing women in the English Renaissance / Betty S. Travitsky -- Counterattacks on "the bayter of women" : three pamphleteers of the early seventeenth century / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Power of integrity in Massinger's women / Ira Clark -- "Maydes are simple, some men say" : Thomas Campion's female persona poems / Gail Reitenbach -- "Strike all that look upon with mar[b]le" : monumentalizing women in Shakespeare's plays / Abbe Blum -- Sin and the politics of penitence : three Jacobean adulteresses / Anne M. Haselkorn -- Style and gender in Elizabeth Canary's Edward II / Tina Krontiris -- Representing political androgyny : more on the Siena portrait of Queen Elizabeth I / Constance Jordan -- Queen's two bodies and the divided emperor : some problems of identity in Antony and Cleopatra / Clare Kinney. |
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Radigund revisited : perspectives on women rulers in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Josephine A. Roberts -- Griselda, Renaissance woman / Judith Bronfman -- Puritan preaching and the politics of the family / R. Valerie Lucas -- "His wife's prayers and meditations" : MS Egerton 607 / Betty S. Travitsky -- "To the angell spirit ..." : Mary Sidney's entry into the "world of words" / Beth Wynne Fisken -- Unknown continent : Lady Mary Wroth's forgotten pastoral drama, "Loves victorie" / Margaret Anne McLaren -- Rewriting lyric fictions : the role of the lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Naomi J. Miller -- Feminine endings : the sexual politics of Sidney's and Spenser's rhyming / Maureen Quilligan -- Countess of Pembroke and gendered reading / Gary F. Waller -- Current bibliography of English women writers, 1500-1640 / Elaine V. Beilin. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Women -- England -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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Women in literature.
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Renaissance -- England.
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Canon (Literature)
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| Added Author |
Haselkorn, Anne M.
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Travitsky, Betty, 1942-
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| ISBN |
0870236911 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0870236903 (alk. paper) |
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