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The female voice was deployed by male and female authors alike to signal emerging discourses of religious and political liberty in early Stuart England. Christina Luckyj's important new study focuses critical attention on writing in multiple genres to show how, in the coded rhetoric of seventeenth-century religious politics, the wife's conscience in resisting tyranny represents the rights of the subject, and the bride's militant voice in the Song of Songs champions Christ's independent jurisdiction. Revealing this gendered system of representation through close analysis of writings by Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Mary Wroth and Anne Southwell, Luckyj illuminates the dangers of essentializing female voices and restricting them to domestic space. Through their connections with parliament, with factional courtiers, or with dissident religious figures, major women writers occupied a powerful oppositional stance in relation to early Stuart monarchs and crafted a radical new politics of the female voice.

English literature --- Liberty in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- Women in literature. --- Religion and politics --- Religion and literature --- History

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Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699

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Drama --- English literature --- Webster, John

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"This third edition of Othello offers a completely new introduction by Christina Luckyj, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of early modern theatre and culture, and demonstrating how careful attention to Shakespeare's language, staging and dramaturgy can open up fresh interpretations of the play. Tracing critical and performance trends up to the present day, Luckyj shows how the drama taps into contemporary cultural paradoxes surrounding blackness, marriage and politics to create a powerful double perspective, illuminating the creative and destructive power of stories and of human love itself. Supplemented by an updated Reading list and extensive illustrations, the edition also features revised commentary notes, offering the very best in contemporary criticism of this great tragedy."--Page 4 of cover.

Husband and wife --- Muslims --- Jealousy --- Othello --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William, --- Venice (Italy)