By S. P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies
Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the main whole sourcebook for the learn of this transforming into region of inquiry. It brings jointly, for the 1st time, a set of the main severe commentaries and historic essays - either vintage and modern - on Renaissance women's drama. in particular designed to supply a entire evaluate for college students, lecturers and students, this assortment combines:
* this century's key severe essays on drama by way of early smooth girls by means of early critics equivalent to Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot
* specially-commissioned new essays by means of a few of ultra-modern vital feminist critics
* a preface and creation explaining this feature and contexts of the materials
* a bibliography of secondary sources
Playwrights lined comprise Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.
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How could she disobey him? How could she break his heart? The force of her own gift alone drove her to it. She made up a small parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer’s night and took the road to London. She was not seventeen. The birds that sang in 23 EARLY COMMENTARIES the hedge were not more musical than she was. She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother’s, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said.
The manager—a fat, looselipped man— guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting— no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. He hinted—you can imagine what. She could get no training in her craft. Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight? Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways. At last—for she was very young, oddly like Shakespeare the poet in her face, with the same grey eyes and rounded brows—at last Nick Greene the actor-manager took pity on her; she found herself with child by that gentleman and so—who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
22 VIRGINIA WOOLF ON ‘JUDITH SHAKESPEARE’ 15 VIRGINIA WOOLF ON ‘JUDITH SHAKESPEARE’ In her seminal work on women writers, A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf addressed the question as to why there were no women playwrights in the English Renaissance, which was, after all, a golden age for drama. The passage quoted below has, since the late 1980s, become an important element in the criticism of Early Modern women dramatists and as such it is essential to include it here. Text from Virginia Woolf (1929), A Room of One’s Own, London: Hogarth Press, pp.
