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Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance: The Wild-Goose Chase; The Bird in a Cage; The Convent of Pleasure

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Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance: The Wild-Goose Chase; The Bird in a Cage; The Convent of Pleasure - Chalmers, Hero (Editor), and Sanders, Julie, Dr. (Editor), and Tomlinson, Sophie (Editor)
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This is a groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection makes the texts of three much-discussed plays--John Fletcher's "The Wild-Goose Chase," James Shirley's "The Bird in a Cage," and Margaret Cavendish's "The Convent of Pleasure"--available together in a full scholarly edition for the first time.

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Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance: The Wild-Goose Chase; The Bird in a Cage; The Convent of Pleasure 2006, Manchester University Press

ISBN-13: 9780719063381

Hardcover