Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women Writers (Penguin Classics: Penguin Dramatists S.)

by Lady Jane Lumley, Mary Countess of Pembroke, and Elizabeth Carey

Diane Purkiss

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This volume contains unmodernized versions of plays by each of the three leading Renaissance women dramatists: Elizabeth Cary's "The Tragedie of Mariam" (1613), the story of the plight of a woman married against her will to an unbending tyrant; June Lumley's version of Euripides' "Iphigenia" (1550), the earliest surviving translation of a Greek tragedy; and Mary Sidney's "Antonie" (1590), a blank verse translation of a French Senecan play. Intended for private production, all three were able to address contentious political issues - the nature of the good ruler, resistance to unjust authority - which were seldom permitted on the public stage.
  • ISBN10 0140436103
  • ISBN13 9780140436105
  • Publish Date 25 June 1998
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 August 2002
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 256
  • Language English