Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 15501700
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521841245
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; History and criticism; English drama; Plays / Drama; English; Literary Criticism; Restoration, 1660-1700; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; Social Science / Gender Studies; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Drama; Early modern and Elizabethan,; Women authors
First sentence: Closet plays by early modern women are inherently dichotomous: in appearance they resemble stage plays but were never professionally performed, they are the products of aristocratic leisure but are permeated with the traditions of commercial drama, they are charged with political purpose but their reception has no apparent bearing on the exercise of power.