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This collection is the first book-length study of the writings and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, 'The Tragedy of Mariam' (1613). While previous criticism has focused almost exclusively on 'The Tragedie of Mariam' and 'The History of Edward II', the essays in this volume broaden our understanding of Cary as a writer by incorporating critical and historical analyses of her forays into other genres as well.

Cary, Elizabeth --- Women and literature --- History --- Cary, Elizabeth, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature, Modern. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.

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Lauze, François de --- Montagut, B. de (Barthélemy) --- Cary, Elizabeth --- Benedictine movement (Anglican Communion)

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"A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women writers working without acknowledgment at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some readers may have heard of Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney, but few will have heard of Amelia Lanyer, the first woman to publish a book of poetry in the 17th century, which offered a feminist take on the crucifixion, or Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play by a woman, about the plight of the Jewish princess Mariam. Then there was Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist, who fought for decades against a patriarchy that tried to rob her of her land, in one of England's most infamous inheritance battles. These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding rooms of their own whose doors had been shut for centuries. Targoff flings them open to uncover the treasures left by these extraordinary women by helping us see the period in a fresh light and by supplying an expanded reading of history and a much-needed female perspective on life in Shakespeare's day"--

Renaissance --- Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, --- Lanyer, Aemilia --- Cary, Elizabeth, --- Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction probes the wealth and diversity of literary forms that fuse auto/biography and fiction in ingenious ways and interact with other artistic media. The international scholars and practitioners who have contributed to this unique volume engage with daring experiments in the dynamic genre of life-writing and enrich current debates in a flourishing field of study. -Monica Latham, Professor of British Literature, Université de Lorraine, France This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Philosophy --- Linguistics --- Literature --- geletterdheid --- filosofie --- literatuur --- Brooke-Rose, Christine --- Kay, Jackie --- Schumann, Clara --- Cary, Elizabeth --- Johnston, B.S. --- Soler, Jordi --- Romano, Lalla --- Handke, Peter --- Marías, Javier --- anno 1900-1999

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In this introduction to the diversity and scope of the writing by women in England from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Patricia Demers discusses the creative realities of women writers' accomplishments and the cultural conditions under which they wrote. There were deep suspicions and restrictions surrounding the education of women during this period, and thus the contributions of women to literature, and to the print industry itself, are largely unknown. This wide-ranging examination of the genres of early modern women's writing embraces translation (from Latin, Greek, and French) in the fields of theological discourse, romance and classical tragedy, original meditations and prayers, letters and diaries, poetry, closet drama, advice manuals, and prophecies and polemics. A close study of six major authors - Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips - explores their work as poets, dramatists, and romantic fiction writers. Demers invites readers to savour the subtlety and daring with which these women authors made writing an expressly social craft.

English literature --- Women and literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Literature --- Wroth, Mary [Lady] --- Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of Newcastle] --- Cary, Elizabeth --- Sidney, Mary --- Lanyer, Aemilia --- Philips, Katherine --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Great Britain --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Literary genres --- Writers --- Images of women --- Book