This is the first full-length study of the role of women in Arthurian literature. It covers writing from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Covering the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Tennyson's Idylls, it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works and, finally, the Arthurian women writers of the twentieth century.

Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword

Literature & Fiction

Wynne-Davies, Marion

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew (New Casebooks, 94)

This volume presents a broad range of critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare's two comedies, The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing. The essays approach the plays from a number of theoretical positions: feminist, historicist, deconstruction and psychoanalytic, as well as offering general commentary and a discussion of film versions and stage productions. The introduction explains the development of these critical pieces, making the two plays considered accessible to students at all levels.

Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew (New Casebooks)

Red Globe Press

Dramas & Plays

This invaluable guide offers readers an accessible and imaginative approach to the literature of early modern Britain. Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of the period, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing a helpful introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less well-known authors. Amongst other things, Wynne-Davies discusses sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry in its political and cultural contexts, considers Renaissance drama in terms of performance space, and uses the early modern map to explain the prose works of writers such as Bunyan and Cavendish.

Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660 (Transitions, 3)

WOLFREYS, JULIAN

Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660 (Transitions, 19)

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama: Criticism, History, and Performance 1594-1998

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama brings together, for the first time, a significant collection of critical and historical essays. Authors include: Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.

Cerasano, S. P.

Routledge

Gloriana's Face : Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

This book traces the chronological development of Atwood's global reputation from Canadian nationhood to world-wide politics and from the role of women to gender identity. Chapters offer a comprehensive overview of her poetry, novels, shorter fiction, children's books, criticism and experimental multi-genre work. There are more detailed analyses of Atwood's most influential writing, from her first novels such as Surfacing and The Edible Woman, through the works that ensured her international reputation such as The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, to her most recent work, Alias Grace and Oryx and Crake. Wynne-Davies presents these works through an overall understanding of Atwood's intelligence, humour, linguistic dexterity, breadth of vision and ethical integrity.

Margaret Atwood (Writers and Their Work)

History & Criticism

Liverpool University Press

A study of the internationally renowned author whose works engage with some of the most important concerns of the 21st century, including: feminism, international terrorism, multiculturalism and global warming.

Margaret Atwood

Humor & Entertainment

Northcote House Pub Ltd

This collection of original essays examines the dichotomy between the public and private worlds of women from the early Renaissance to the 1650s. The essays are arranged to highlight the movement from the private, Elizabethan woman to her more public, Carolingean counterpart. Through the changing images of Elizabeth I's portraits, the introduction contextualizes the transformation from the iconographic queen to her more independent identity as Gloriana. Individual essays explore women's diaries, the fashioning of Elizabeth I' s political persona in her parliamentary speeches, and the maternal subtexts of Sidney's Arcadia and of King Lear. Other essays analyze the framing nomenclature associated with Shakespeare's Kates, the legal and linguistic subversion of Much Ado About Nothing, and the disruption of conventional women's identities in the Jacobean court masque. Finally, the radical puritanical sects are discussed in light of their feminist spirituality.  Interdisciplinary in its approach, this illustrated book will be of interest to scholars and research students of Renaissance studies, feminist studies, gender criticism and women's history, as well as of literature, the theatre, art history and the social history of ideas.

Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance

Wayne State Univ Pr

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