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This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn Explores the historical context and generic diversity of ...

Introduces students to the literature of the Renaissance and the Eighteenth Century, by reference to Shakespeare's Othello, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Voltaire's Candide, amongst other works.

Situates Shakespeare's last tragedy within its own historical period and presents a reappraisal of its representation of class conflict. This book also provides a re-valuation of Volumnia's role in the play, arguing that she is not depicted as a bad mother or an unfeminine woman, but as the embodiment of a Roman ideal of aristocratic motherhood.

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn Explores the historical context and generic diversity of ...