Women’s Household Drama
Loves Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes
9780866986021
9780866987493
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Women’s Household Drama
Loves Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes
This volume presents three plays by women that were written in specific household contexts and survive in distinctive handwritten copies dating from their authors’ lifetimes. Care is taken in the introductions, notes, and apparatus to make the plays accessible to non-specialist readers while also preserving early modern orthography, punctuation, and manuscript practices. Each play is presented in an edited old-spelling text and set within its literary, biographical, and theatrical context. The volume as a whole foregrounds the early modern household as a uniquely productive setting for women’s theatrical and literary activity.
Volume 66 in the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Chicago Series
Volume 66 in the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Chicago Series
274 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2018
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
Literature and Literary Criticism: Dramatic Works, General Criticism and Critical Theory
Reviews
Table of Contents
Illustrations xiii
Acknowledgments xv
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Marta Straznicky and Sara Mueller 1
PART I: MARY WROTH (1587?–1651)
Edited by Marta Straznicky 15
Introduction 17
Loves Victorie 47
Textual Notes for Loves Victorie 113
PART II: JANE CAVENDISH (1621–1669) and ELIZABETH BRACKLEY (1626–1663)
Edited by Sara Mueller 139
Introduction 141
A Pastorall 177
Textual Notes for A Pastorall 197
The concealed Fansyes 199
Bibliography 255
Index 269
Acknowledgments xv
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Marta Straznicky and Sara Mueller 1
PART I: MARY WROTH (1587?–1651)
Edited by Marta Straznicky 15
Introduction 17
Loves Victorie 47
Textual Notes for Loves Victorie 113
PART II: JANE CAVENDISH (1621–1669) and ELIZABETH BRACKLEY (1626–1663)
Edited by Sara Mueller 139
Introduction 141
A Pastorall 177
Textual Notes for A Pastorall 197
The concealed Fansyes 199
Bibliography 255
Index 269
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