Female & male voices in early modern England : an anthology of Renaissance writing

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Female & male voices in early modern England : an anthology of Renaissance writing

edited by Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott

Columbia University Press, c2000

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Female and male voices in early modern England

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Most anthologies of Renaissance writing include only (or predominantly) male writers, whereas those that focus on women include women exclusively. This book is the first to survey both in an integrated fashion. Its texts comprise a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing-including some new and important discoveries. The texts are arranged so that writing by women and men is presented together, not in a "point-counterpoint" system that would "square off" female and male writers against one another, but rather in pairs, sometimes clusters, of texts in which women's writing is foregrounded even as it appears with writing by men. The anthology arranges recently recovered texts into intriguing patterns, juxtaposing, for example, Aemelia Lanyer's country house poem with an expression of a different type of nostalgia by Surrey. It includes unconventional voices, as in the homoerotic poems by Richard Barnfield or the possibly lesbian poems by Katherine Philips. It makes newly available the voices of English Marrano women (secret Jews) and the Miltonic poetry of Jean Lead.

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Introduction Acknowledgments I. Domestic Affairs 1. Margaret Lucas Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) Richard Brathwait (1588?-1673) 2. Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, countess of Bridgewater (1626-1663) Ben Jonson (1572-1637) 3. Mary Sidney Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) 4. Amelia Bassano Lanyer (1569-1645) Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1517-1547) 5. Elizabeth Stafford Howard, duchess of Norfolk (1497-1558) Henry, Baron Stafford (1502-1563) 6. Rachel Wrothesley Vaughan Russell (1636-1723) Henry King (1592-1669) 7. Jane Sharp (fl. 1641-1671) John Sadler (fl. 1636) 8. Rachel Speght [Procter] (c. 1597-after 1621) Richard Hyrde (d. 1528) 9. Elizabeth Talbot Grey, countess of Kent (1581-1651) Hugh Platt (1552-c. 1611) II. Religion 10. Sarah Chevers (fl. 1663) and Katherine Evans (d. 1692) William Weston (1550-1615) 11. Anne Vaughan Lock [Dering, Prowse] (c. 1534-after 1590) Henry Lock (1553?-1608?) 12. Elizabeth Melville Colville of Culross (fl. 1603-1630) Thomas Sackville (1536-1608) 13. A Medley of Christian Religious Poetry: Anne Collins (fl. 1653) Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1613-1672) Dame Gertrude More (1601?-1633) Gertrude Aston Thimelby (c. 1617-1668) Henry Colman (fl. 1640) John Collop (1625-after 1676) Henry Constable (1562-1613) 14. Jane Ward Lead (1624-1704) John Milton (1608-1674) 15. The Jewish Question in Early Modern England: Sara Ames Lopez (1550-after 1594) Anne Lopez alias Pino de Britto (1579-1626) Johanna and Ebenezer Cartwright (fl. 1648) Menasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657) Margaret Fell Foxe (1614-1702) George Herbert (1593-1633) III. Political Life and Social Structures 16. Mary Tudor Brandon (1496-1533) Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk (1473-1554) 17. Margaret Douglas [Stuart], countess of Lennox (1515-1578) Thomas Howard (d. 1537) 18. Women's Political Petitions, 1649 John Taylor (1578-1653) 19. Margaret Tyler (fl. 1578) Daniel Tuvil (fl. 1609) 20. Diana Primrose (fl. 1630) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 21. Anne Edgcumbe Dowriche (before 1560-after 1613) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) 22. Mary Fage (fl. 1637) Francis Lenton (fl. 1630-1640) 23. Eleanor Audley Davies [Douglas] (1590-1652) A "Digger" Follower of Gerrard Winstanley (c. 1649) 24. Elizabeth Sawyer (d. 1621) and Henry Goodcole (1586-1641) Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632), John Ford (1586-c. 1639) and William Rowley (d. 1626) 25. Mary White Rowlandson (c. 1635-after 1677) Thomas Hariot (1560-1621), Michael Drayton (1563-1631), and Robert Hayman (1575-1629) IV. Love and Sexuality 26. Mary Sidney Wroth (1587?-1653?) Robert Sidney (1563-1626) and Philip Sidney (1554-1586) 27. Katherine Fowler Philips (1632-1664) Richard Barnfield (b. 1574) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 28. Isabella Whitney (fl. 1566-1573) Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), John Donne (1572-1631), and Thomas Campion (1567-1620) 29. Mary Sidney Wroth (1587?-1653?) Philip Sidney (1554-1586) 30. Mary Moders Carleton (d. 1673) Thomas Whythorne (1528-1598)

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