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Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance (Paperback)
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Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance (Paperback)
Series: Revels Plays Companion Library
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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 a full
scholarly edition for the first time. The Wild Goose Chase (1621)
and The Bird in a Cage (1633) were both performed in the commercial
London theatres in the Jacobean and Caroline periods respectively.
The Convent of Pleasure (1668) is a so-called 'closet' drama,
designed primarily for reading but drawing on a tradition of
aristocratic theatricals. In a wide-ranging co-authored
introduction to the volume, the editors explore the concerns of
these playtexts in relation to contemporary debates surrounding
popular festivity and anti-theatricalism, as well as the agency of
elite female culture in the Stuart period and the emergence of the
professional female actor in the Restoration. The volume will be an
invaluable teaching and research tool for students and scholars of
early modern drama, women's writing and performance studies more
generally, as well as providing a rich sourcebook for the reader
interested in seventeenth-century theatrical culture. -- .
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