The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction - Placing Women in the English Renaissance 3
• I - The Outspoken Woman 43
• Counterattacks on "The Bayter of Women" - Three Pamphleteers of the Early Seventeenth Century 45
• The Power of Integrity in Massinger's Women 63
• "Maydes Are Simple, Some Men Say" - Thomas Campion's Female Persona Poems 80
• II - Woman on the Renaissance Stage 97
• "Strike All That Look Upon with Mar{B}Le" - Monumentalizing Women in Shakespeare's Plays 99
• Sin and the Politics of Penitence - Three Jacobean Adulteresses 119
• Style and Gender in Elizabeth Cary's Edward II 137
• III - The Woman Ruler 155
• Representing Political Androgyny - More on the Siena Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I 157
• The Queen's Two Bodies and the Divided Emperor - Some Problems of Identity in Antony and Cleopatra 177
• Radigund Revisited - Perspectives on Women Rulers in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania 187
• IV - The Private Woman 209
• Griselda, Renaissance Woman 211
• Puritan Preaching and the Politics of the Family 224
• "His Wife's Prayers and Meditations" - Ms Egerton 607 241
• V - Women and the Sidneian Tradition 261
• "To the Angell Spirit . . ." - Mary Sidney's Entry into the "World of Words" 263
• An Unknown Continent - Lady Mary Wroth's Forgotten Pastoral Drama, "Loves Victorie" 276
• Rewriting Lyric Fictions - The Role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 295
• Feminine Endings - The Sexual Politics of Sidney's and Spenser's Rhyming 311
• The Countess of Pembroke and Gendered Reading 327
• Current Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640 347
• Notes on Contributors 361

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