Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550 1700

Marta Straznicky
Cambridge University Press
9780521841245
0-521-84124-0

Marta Straznicky offers a detailed historical analysis of the relationship between early modern women's closet plays and the culture of reading. Straznicky reveals that these works, by Elizabeth Cary and.

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Margaret Cavendish, among others, were part of an alternative dramatic tradition, an elite and private literary culture that was intellectually superior to, and politically more radical than, commercial drama.