Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance

by Hero Chalmers, Julie Sanders, Sophie Tomlinson

Book Overview

This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern drama, makes the texts of three much-discussed plays - John Fletcher's The Wild-Goose Chase, James Shirley's The Bird in a Cage and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure - available together in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719063396
• ISBN13: 9780719063398
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"