Mary Wroth and Shakespeare
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781138783034
Subjects: Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, influence; Originality in literature; Gender identity in literature; Women and literature; English poetry, history and criticism
Description: "Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and criticisms, both on various groups and individual authors. The work on Mary Wroth has been particularly impressive at integrating her poetry, prose and drama into the canon. This in turn has led to comparative studies that link Wroth to a number of male and female writers, including of course, William Shakespeare. At the same time no single volume has attempted a comprehensive comparative analysis. This book sets out to explore the ways in which Wroth negotiated the discourses that are embedded in the Shakespearean canon in order to develop an understanding of her oeuvre based, not on influence and imitation, but on difference, originality and innovation"--