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Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance(Reprint)
(Revels Plays Companion Library MUP)
by Hero Chalmers, Julie Sanders, Sophie Tomlinson, Paul Edmondson, Martin White
Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2011 by Manchester University Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-6339-8, ISBN: 0-7190-6339-6

"This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern drama, makes the texts of three much-discussed plays - John Fletcher's The Wild-Goose Chase, James Shirley's The Bird in a Cage and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure - available to ..."

The Shakespeare Circle(Reprint)
An Alternative Biography
by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells, Eds Stanley Wells
Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-69909-0, ISBN: 1-107-69909-6

"This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard Burbage, Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton are freshly considered; little-known but relevant lives are brought to the fore, and revisionist views are expressed on such matters as Shakespeare's w ..."