Florentine drama for convent and festival
Subtitle: seven sacred plays
By: Antonia Pulci ; annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook ; edited by James Wyatt Cook and Barbara Collier Cook.
Contributors: Cook, James Wyatt, 1932-; Cook, Barbara Collier.
Series: The other voice in early modern Europe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Pulci, Antonia, 1452-1501 -- Translations into English.; Religious drama, Italian -- Translations into English.
Description: "A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni--one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-46) and index.