A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama / Edition 1

by Alison Findlay

Overview

We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theatre audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631205098
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/26/1999
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alison Findlay is a lecturer in English at Lancaster University, specializing in feminist approaches to Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and women's writing of the early modern period.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1.'Heavenly matters of theology'.

2. Revenge Tragedy.

3. 'I please my self': Female Self-fashioning.

4. Household Tragedies.

5. Queens and Subjects.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"In this valuable book Alison Findlay attempts to develop historically grounded feminist responses to a wide variety of Renaissance plays . . . Findlay writes with admirable clarity and concision, offering interpretations that are informed but never obscured by contemporary - especially Lacanian - critical theory. This is a good book, worth reading and debating." Early Modern Literary Studies.

"All the essays are new, and together they illuminate a wide range of issues across a reasonable spread of plays. The book offers a range of thoughtful and stimulating approaches to gender on the Renaissance stage." The Yearbook of English Studies

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