Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry

with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters

AvElizabeth Cary,Barry Weller

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

Del i serien University of California Press

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Beskrivning

The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not merely how women were represented in the early modern period but also how they themselves perceived their own condition. With this textually emended and fully annotated edition, the play will now be accessible to all readers. The accompanying biography of Cary further enriches our knowledge of both domestic and religious conflicts in the seventeenth century.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-02-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520079694

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Barry Weller is Professor of English at the University of Utah and editor of the dramas in The Complete Poetical Works of Byron. Margaret W. Ferguson is Professor of English at the University of Colorado and author of Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (1983).

Innehållsförteckning

PREFACE I INTRODUCTION I ELIZABETH CARY's LIFE AND woRKs SUBTEXTS AND CONTENTS FOR MARIAM Josephus and Jewish Materials Biblical and Historical Herods Mystery Play Herods Continental and Classicizing Dramas about Herod and MariamEnglish "Closet" Dramas The "Social Text" of Henry VIII's Divorce CARY's MARIAM The Chorus and Conventional Wisdom Structure and Characterization MARIAM AND SHAKESPEARE THE TEXTS OF MARIAM AND THE LIFE The r6q Quarto of MariamThe Manuscript of The Lady if Falkland: Her Life EDITORIAL PROCEDURES NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTIONPART ONETHE TRAGEDY OF MARIAMHistorical Background to the Events in the Play The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry, by Elizabeth Cary Notes to the Play PART TWOTHE LADY FALKLANDChronology of Elizabeth Cary's Life and Works The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters APPENDIX APASSAGES FROM LoDGE's TRANSLATION OF JosEPHUS (1602)APPENDIX BTEXTUAL COLLATION FOR MARIAM SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY