Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama

<p><em>Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama</em> is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together for the first time a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students teachers and scholars this collection combines:<br> * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot<br> * specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics<br> * a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials<br> * a bibliography of secondary sources<br> Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley Elizabeth Cary Mary Sidney Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.</p>