Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary and the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer

by Elizabeth Cary and Aemilia Lanyer

This volume brings together two of the earliest women writers. Elizabeth Cary's (1585-1639) "The Tragedie of Mariam" is one of the first in English known to be the work of a woman writer. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) wrote the strongly feminist "Salve Deus Rex Judaorum" which was published in 1611.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851960295
• ISBN13: 9781851960293
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"