Table of Contents:
  • Part 3. Early modern women dramatists. "We princes, I tell you, are set on stages" : Elizabeth I and dramatic self-representation / Carole Levin
  • Joanna Lumley (1537?-1576/77) / Elaine V. Beilin
  • Jane Lumley's Iphigenia at Aulis: multum in parvo, or, less is more / Stephanie Hodgson-Wright
  • "Patronesse of the Muses" / Margaret P. Hannay
  • Mary Herbert : Englishing a purified Cleopatra / Tina Krontiris
  • Elizabeth Cary (1585-1639) / Elaine V. Beilin
  • The spectre of resistance : The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) / Margaret W. Ferguson
  • Resisting tyrants : Elizabeth Cary's tragedy / Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
  • An unknown continent : Lady Mary Wroth's forgotten pastoral drama, "Loves Victorie" / Margaret Anne McLaren
  • "Like one in a gay masque" : the Sidney cousins in the theaters of court and country / Gary Waller
  • "To be your daughter in your pen" : the social functions of literature in the writings of Lady Elizabeth Brackley and Lady Jane Cavendish / Margaret J.M. Ezell
  • "She gave you the civility of the house" : household performance in The Concealed Fancies / Alison Findlay.
  • Part 3 [continued]. "My brain the stage" : Margaret Cavendish and the fantasy of female performance / Sophie Tomlinson
  • "A woman write a play!" : Jonsonian strategies and the dramatic writings of Margaret Cavendish, or, did the duchess feel the anxiety of influence? / Julie Sanders.