| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) |
| Contents |
Elizabeth Cary's Life and Works. Subtexts and Contents for Mariam. Josephus and Jewish Materials. Biblical and Historical Herods. Mystery Play Herods. Continental and Classicizing Dramas about Herod and Mariam. English "Closet" Dramas. The "Social Text" of Henry VIII's Divorce. Cary's Mariam. The Chorus and Conventional Wisdom. Structure and Characterization. Mariam and Shakespeare. The Texts of Mariam and the Life. The 1613 Quarto of Mariam. The Manuscript of The Lady of Falkland: Her Life -- pt. 1. The Tragedy of Mariam. Historical Background to the Events in the Play. The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry / Elizabeth Cary -- pt. 2. The Lady Falkland. Chronology of Elizabeth Cary's Life and Works. The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters -- Appendix A: Passages from Lodge's Translation of Josephus (1602) -- Appendix B: Textual Collation for Mariam |
| Summary |
The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not merely how women were represented in the early modern period but also how they themselves perceived their own condition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-328) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mariamne, consort of Herod I, King of Judea, approximately 57 B.C.-approximately 29 B.C. -- Drama
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Herod I, King of Judea, 73 B.C.-4 B.C. -- Drama
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Cary, Elizabeth, Lady, 1585 or 1586-1639.
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| SUBJECT |
Cary, Elizabeth, Lady, 1585 or 1586-1639 fast |
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Herod I, King of Judea, 73 B.C.-4 B.C. fast |
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Mariamne, consort of Herod I, King of Judea, approximately 57 B.C.-approximately 29 B.C. fast |
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern -- Biography
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Women and literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Drama
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History
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Tragedies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weller, Barry
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Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
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| ISBN |
9780520912984 |
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0520912985 |
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058535328X |
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9780585353289 |
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