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Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700 »
Authors: Marta Straznicky
ISBN-13: 9780521100113, ISBN-10: 0521100119
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Marta Straznicky
Marta Straznicky is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University, Ontario.
Book Synopsis
This study investigates the tradition of closet drama written and read by women in early modern England.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Privacy, playreading, and performance | 7 |
| 2 | Jane Lumley : humanist translation and the culture of playreading | 19 |
| 3 | Elizabeth Cary : "private" drama and print | 48 |
| 4 | Margaret Cavendish : the closing of the theatres and the politics of playreading | 67 |
| 5 | Anne Finch : authorship, privacy and the restoration stage | 91 |
| Conclusion : "closet" drama : private space, private stage, and gender | 112 |
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