Съдържание:
  • Part 1. Early commentaries. Mary Sidney is praised to Elizabeth I ; Samuel Daniel to Mary Sidney ; John Davies of Hereford commends Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Cary ; William Sheares to Elizabeth Cary ; Jonson and Wroth ; Elizabeth Cary's biography ; Celebrating several ladies ; The cavalier's lady and her plays ; The first scholarly edition of Mary Sidney's Antonie ; Lumley's play first published ; The first modern edition of Mariam ; Early critical recognition of Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish ; Woolf on Margaret Cavendish ; T.S. Eliot on Senecan drama ; Virginia Woolf on "Judith Shakespeare" ; The first edition The Concealed Fancies ; Cary and "A Woman's Duty" ; Mary Sidney : Philip's sister.
  • Part 2. Contexts and issues. Women playwrights in England : Renaissance noblewomen / Nancy Cotton
  • The arts at the English court of Anna of Denmark / Leeds Barroll
  • "My seeled chamber and dark parlour room" : the English country house and Renaissance women dramatists / Marion Wynne-Davies
  • Women as patrons of English Renaissance drama / David M. Bergeron
  • Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers / Jean E. Howard
  • Women as theatrical investors : three shareholders and the second Fortune Playhouse / S.P. Cerasano
  • "Why may not a lady write a good play?" : plays by early modern women reassessed as performance texts / Gweno Williams.
  • Part 3. Early modern women dramatists. "We princes, I tell you, are set on stages" : Elizabeth I and dramatic self-representation / Carole Levin
  • Joanna Lumley (1537?-1576/77) / Elaine V. Beilin
  • Jane Lumley's Iphigenia at Aulis: multum in parvo, or, less is more / Stephanie Hodgson-Wright
  • "Patronesse of the Muses" / Margaret P. Hannay
  • Mary Herbert : Englishing a purified Cleopatra / Tina Krontiris
  • Elizabeth Cary (1585-1639) / Elaine V. Beilin
  • The spectre of resistance : The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) / Margaret W. Ferguson
  • Resisting tyrants : Elizabeth Cary's tragedy / Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
  • An unknown continent : Lady Mary Wroth's forgotten pastoral drama, "Loves Victorie" / Margaret Anne McLaren
  • "Like one in a gay masque" : the Sidney cousins in the theaters of court and country / Gary Waller
  • "To be your daughter in your pen" : the social functions of literature in the writings of Lady Elizabeth Brackley and Lady Jane Cavendish / Margaret J.M. Ezell
  • "She gave you the civility of the house" : household performance in The Concealed Fancies / Alison Findlay.
  • Part 3 [continued]. "My brain the stage" : Margaret Cavendish and the fantasy of female performance / Sophie Tomlinson
  • "A woman write a play!" : Jonsonian strategies and the dramatic writings of Margaret Cavendish, or, did the duchess feel the anxiety of influence? / Julie Sanders.