Convents And Novices In Early Modern English Dramatic Works
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Convents And Novices In Early Modern English Dramatic Works
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Author : Vanessa L. Rapatz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-03-23
Convents And Novices In Early Modern English Dramatic Works written by Vanessa L. Rapatz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with History categories.
Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.
Neither This Nor That
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Author : Vanessa Lynn Rapatz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Neither This Nor That written by Vanessa Lynn Rapatz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Reformation in England brought about massive upheavals that altered the religious landscape of the country, including the dissolution of the country's convents. Either razed or repurposed, convents disappeared from England; only those with the resources and determination to enter convents on the Continent could still become nuns. Yet, at the level of representation, the convent continued to stand as an alternative to marriage. In countless texts, I show, we find a novice poised between these two options. The novice, for the sake of this project, is both a woman about to enter a convent and an ingénue; she has yet to take on an adult identity and can be classified neither as nun nor wife. Neither this nor that, she is both an ambiguous figure and a surprisingly common one in post-reformation texts. This dissertation examines the afterlives of convents and novices in early modern English dramatic texts, including staged plays, dialogues, and closet dramas. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta, Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious, Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover, and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. The texts slide between comedy and tragedy, romance and debate, drama and narrative. Each of these dramatic texts incorporates convent features such as grates, turnstiles, and fortified walls that paradoxically invite and repel outsiders' interest. Simultaneously depicted as fortifications and vulnerabilities, these devices, built into both buildings and plots, structurally enable the novice's agency, which is always measured by her ability to imagine alternatives to marriage. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation. The novice, positioned between the choices of convent and marriage, becomes a figure in whom audience members and readers might have recognized their own ambiguous affiliations and longing for alternatives.
Convents And Novices In Early Modern English Dramatic Works
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Author : Vanessa L. Rapatz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-03-23
Convents And Novices In Early Modern English Dramatic Works written by Vanessa L. Rapatz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with History categories.
Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.
English Convents In Exile 1600 1800 V 1 History Writing
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
English Convents In Exile 1600 1800 V 1 History Writing written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Convents categories.
Florentine Drama For Convent And Festival
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Author : Antonia Pulci
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Florentine Drama For Convent And Festival written by Antonia Pulci and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Drama categories.
A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni—one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers. Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.
English Convents In Exile 1600 1800
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
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The Convent Of Pleasure And Other Plays
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Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-06-18
The Convent Of Pleasure And Other Plays written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-18 with Drama categories.
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 for fame. Loves Adventures (1662) centers on a woman succeeding in war and diplomacy by passing as a man. Similarly, the heroine of Bell in Campo (1662) rescues her husband at the head of an army of women in this tale of a marriage of near equals. The Convent of Pleasure (1668) proposes a separatist community of women and has received attention for its suggestion of lesbian sexuality. The Bridals (1662), a more typical restoration comedy satirizing marriage, rounds out the collection. Edited with notes and annotation by Anne Shaver, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays also contains a timeline, biography and bibliography of the Duchess, an appreciation of Cavendish's life and work, and a bibliography of critical essays. Also included are all of Cavendish's epistles To the Reader as well as Other Preliminary Matter from Playes (1662), and Cavendish's original preface to Plays Never Before Printed (1668). A valuable collection from an extraordinary writer, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays raises important issues about women and gender.
Shakespearean Criticism
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language : en
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Release Date : 1984
Shakespearean Criticism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
Book For The Hour Of Recreation
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Author : María de San José Salazar
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Book For The Hour Of Recreation written by María de San José Salazar and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
María de San José Salazar (1548-1603) took the veil as a Discalced ("barefoot") Carmelite nun in 1571, becoming one of Teresa of Avila's most important collaborators in religious reform and serving as prioress of the Seville and Lisbon convents. Within the parameters of the strict Catholic Reformation in Spain, María fiercely defended women's rights to define their own spiritual experience and to teach, inspire, and lead other women in reforming their church. María wrote this book as a defense of the Discalced practice of setting aside two hours each day for conversation, music, and staging of religious plays. Casting the book in the form of a dialogue, María demonstrates through fictional conversations among a group of nuns during their hours of recreation how women could serve as very effective spiritual teachers for each other. The book includes one of the first biographical portraits of Teresa and Maria's personal account of the troubled founding of the Discalced convent at Seville, as well as her tribulations as an Inquisitional suspect. Rich in allusions to women's affective relationships in the early modern convent, Book for the Hour of Recreation also serves as an example of how a woman might write when relatively free of clerical censorship and expectations. A detailed introduction and notes by Alison Weber provide historical and biographical context for Amanda Powell's fluid translation.
Nails In The Wall
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Author : Amy Leonard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-07-29
Nails In The Wall written by Amy Leonard and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-29 with History categories.
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