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Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of
seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have
habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of
Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues
that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the
Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by
their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political
sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect
their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and
manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly
pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom
supporting them could be an act of political self-definition.
Brings together three much-discussed seventeenth-century plays in
an accessible and scholarly edition for the first time, allowing
for comparative and contextual studies A substantial co-authored
introduction addresses questions of elite female culture in the
early modern period and the emergence of the professional female
actor All three editors have an established reputation in the field
of seventeenth-century scholarship, and have produced pioneering
work on elite female culture and the stage The volume is innovative
in terms of its attention to questions of gender and performance as
they are staged and explored in seventeenth-century drama Offers
varied examples of theatrical practice and performance while also
considering lines of interaction and influence between the writers
and plays discussed
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