Readings In Renaissance Women's Drama

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the first significant collection of critical and historical essays on women's essential contributions to the Renaissance stage. It revives the faded Renaissance woman dramatist from obscurity, and brings together important essays on the topic by such notables as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. Focusing on issues from the contemporary critical reaction to women's drama and the authorship and performance histories of the plays to the longstanding and persistent neglect of successful plays by Renaissance women in the literary canon, this collection promises to rewrite our understandings of the Renaissance and of the history of drama.