num_pages: 352
description: This is a groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection 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.
language: English
title: Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance
titlecomplete: Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance (Revels Plays Companions Library)
genres: Plays
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Manchester University Press