Titlebook: Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England; Creating Their Own M Akiko Kusunoki Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if a

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Introduction: Concepts of Womanhood in Early Modern England,We often hear nowadays that feminism is a thing of the past and is no longer relevant. The limitations of this typically Western view become obvious once we turn our attention to the current situations of women in the rest of the world: in some countries they must risk their lives to demand even the basic human right to education.

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Book 2015This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women‘s actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137558930self; selfhood; autonomy; female agency; Mary Wroth; Urania; Love‘s Victory; romance; Shakespeare; Jonson; Phi

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Representing Elizabeth I in Jacobean England,ountries, his favouritism for his Scottish subjects and his negative attitude towards women. This social climate resulted in an Elizabethan revival, which centred on the Court of Prince Henry, the Prince of Wales, who embodied militant Protestantism against the Catholic powers in Europe.

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Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern EnglandCreating Their Own M

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08299-6seventeenth century, the plays that reflect this attitude increased in number, but no dramatist pursued the issue as thoroughly as Webster did in his two great tragedies, . and . Although various factors—social, economic, political, moral—contributed to the emergence of this new perspective on the n

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-85442-1 the social scale.. But, thanks to work on the records both of the ecclesiastical courts and of Bridewell Hospital in London, we now also know a great deal about the transgressions of less prominent women and men.. As has been explained in the previous chapter, Lady Penelope Rich, for instance, who

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12838-9ning the realities that confronted women as well as women’s defiance of conventional concepts of womanhood helped the emergence of a new kind of view of women in the late Jacobean years. In this sense some male playwrights in the period were active agents in forming and altering contemporary culture