The Woman in the Moon

by John Lyly

Book Overview

His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly's most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has been read as highly misogynistic, and as a sixteenth-century feminist manifesto. The biblical version of the creation of woman is overturned in the first scene when the play's supreme deity, Nature, presents her ultimate creation, Pandora (memorably played...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071907245X
• ISBN13: 9780719072451
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"