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The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays
Paperback. A valuable collection from an extraordinary writer, "The Convent of Pleasureand Other Plays raises important issues about women and gender. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (including The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramatic works that are among the most revealing of her attitudes toward marriage and her desire ... Read more
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (including The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramatic works that are among the most revealing of her attitudes toward marriage and her desire ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801861000
SKU
V9780801861000
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99-50
About Roger Hargreaves
Anne Shaver is Lorena Woodrow Burke Professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Reviews for The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays
Her introductory material places its initial emphasis upon biographical narrative _ an invaluable context in which to understand Cavendish's work, and most especially her dramatic writing, which is obsessed by the cultural anxieties surrounding the female intellectual of high birth who seeks a more public identity.
Andrew Hiscock Review of English Studies
Andrew Hiscock Review of English Studies