This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both ge

This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both ge

Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction

"This volume contains the edited proceedings from the 1990 symposium "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," which was sponsored by the Center for Renaiss

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue bet