Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700

Contents: Introduction; Selected bibliography; Part I The Life and/in the Work: Elizabeth Cary and The Tragedie of Mariam, Elaine Beilin; Resurrecting the author: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Donald W. Foster; The reproduction of mothering in Mariam, Queen of Jewry: a defense of 'biographical' criticism, Meredith Skura; A family affair: the life and letters of Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Heather Wolfe. Part II The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry: Genre: Valuing Mariam: genre study and feminist analysis, Nancy A. Gutierrez; Theaters, households, and a 'kind of history' in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Rosemary Kegl; 'Profane stoical paradoxes': The Tragedie of Mariam and Sidneian closet drama, Marta Straznicky. Social and Political Contexts: Re-reading Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry, Dympna Callaghan; Reading, work and Catholic women's biographies, Frances E. Dolan; Allegories of imperial subjection: literacy as equivocation in Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam, Margaret W. Ferguson; Backbiters, flatterers, and monarchs: domestic politics in The Tragedy of Mariam, Heather E. Ostman; 'Counterfeit colour': making up race in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Kimberly Woosley Poitevin; The Tragedy of Mariam: Cary's critique of the terms founding social discourses, Laurie J. Shannon. Part III The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II: Reform or rebellion? The limits of female authority in Elizabeth Cary's The History of the life, Reign and Death of Edward II, Gwynne Kennedy; Gender and property: Elizabeth Cary and the History of Edward II, Karen Raber; Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: what do women want to write, Meredith Skura; Shaping a drama out of a history: Elizabeth Cary and the story of Edward II, Janet Wright Starner and Susan M. Fitzmaurice. Part IV Cary in Comparison: 'Ears prejudicate' in Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi, Reina Green; Insurgent flesh: epistemology and violence in Othello and Maria