The theatricality of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Subtitle: unmasking conventions in context
By: Susan Lauffer O'Hara
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press; Associated University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Selinsgrove [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781575911571
Subjects: English Sonnets; Women authors; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. (258-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The traditional sonnet sequence (Section 1: Sonnets P1-P55); title: "[A]nd doth fill / noe eye with wunder more": the presence of amphilanthus and the negation of idealized constancy; title: "Into my loving soule, his grace to knowe": pamphilia defined; title: pt. 2. The double masque (Sections 2 and 3: Sonnets P56-P103); title: "The spring of joy, whose streames with bliss showld flow": the tyranny of amphilanthus; title: "And burne, yett burning you will love the smart": ideal love and the negation of marriage; title: "For soone will hee your strength beeguile": pamphilia's subversive text.