The woman in the moon
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書誌事項
The woman in the moon
（The revels plays）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly's most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has been read as highly misogynistic, and as a sixteenth-century feminist manifesto. The biblical version of the creation of woman is overturned in the first scene when the play's supreme deity, Nature, presents her ultimate creation, Pandora (memorably played in 1928 by Katharine Hepburn), to a group of Utopian shepherds, who compete for her love. Their amatory pursuit is complicated by the seven planets, whose attributes have been bestowed by Nature on her new creation, and who decide to take revenge by subjecting Pandora to their influence. The action rapidly develops into a dazzling comedy of intrigue, resulting in both an explanation for the female disposition and the creation of an 'alternative' version of the myth of the man in the moon.
Newly edited from the first edition (1597), The Woman in the Moon will be of interest to all students of sixteenth-century drama. It is complemented by generous notes and commentary, as well as a full introduction and stage history. -- .
目次
- Introduction
- The text
- Date and authorship
- Sources
- Structure
- Myth and metamorphosis
- Topical application
- The comic underling
- Dramaturgy and staging
- Stage history
- This edition
- Notes
- The Woman in the Moon.
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