Bell in Campo
Subtitle: The sociable companions
By: Margaret Cavendish ; edited by Alexandra G. Bennett.
Contributors: Bennett, Alexandra G., 1970-; Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Series: Broadview literary texts
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Women soldiers -- Drama.; Single women -- Drama.; Royalists -- Drama.; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Drama.; Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Bell in Campo ; The sociable companions; Sociable companions.
Description: "Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions are scathing satires that speak to the role of women's agency amidst this cultural tumult. In Bell in Campo, a group of virtuous women follow their husbands to war and, refusing to remain docilely out of harm's way, form an army of their own.

The Sociable Companions details the struggles of four women from impoverished Royalist families trying to survive in a rapacious marriage market at the war's end." "The Broadview Literary Texts edition presents these two complementary plays together, along with supplementary materials on Cavendish's life, the participation of women in the combat of the English Civil War, the conduct of the Royalist military forces, and seventeenth-century social and marriage conventions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230).