Readings in Renaissance women's drama : criticism, history, and performance, 1594-1998

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama collects together for the first time the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama.

The essays cover the following playwrights: Joanna Lumley Elizabeth Cary Mary Sidney Mary Wroth the Cavendish sisters Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: key critical essays on drama by women in the early modern period, by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S.

Eliot specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics a preface and introduction explaining the selection and contexts of the materials a bibliography of secondary sources Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this revalatory and growing area of inquiry.