Informationen zum Autor Alison Findlay is a lecturer in English at Lancaster University, specializing in feminist approaches to Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and women's writing of the early modern period. Klappentext We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theatre audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there? Zusammenfassung Uses the writings of 16th and 17th century women to construct a feminist perspective on drama by Shakespeare! Marlowe! Jonson! Middleton! Ford! and their contemporaries. This book includes plays such as: "Doctor Faustus"! "Measure for Measure"! "The Spanish Tragedy"! "The Revenger's Tragedy" and "The Maid's Tragedy". Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1.'Heavenly matters of theology'. 2. Revenge Tragedy. 3. 'I please my self': Female Self-fashioning. 4. Household Tragedies. 5. Queens and Subjects. Index.

Autorentext

Alison Findlay is a lecturer in English at Lancaster University, specializing in feminist approaches to Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and women's writing of the early modern period.

Klappentext

We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theatre audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there?

Zusammenfassung
Uses the writings of 16th and 17th century women to construct a feminist perspective on drama by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Ford, and their contemporaries. This book includes plays such as: "Doctor Faustus", "Measure for Measure", "The Spanish Tragedy", "The Revenger's Tragedy" and "The Maid's Tragedy".

Inhalt

Acknowledgements. Introduction.

1.'Heavenly matters of theology'.

2. Revenge Tragedy.

3. 'I please my self': Female Self-fashioning.

4. Household Tragedies.

5. Queens and Subjects.

Index.