Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship
Title | Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship PDF eBook |
Author | Ilona Bell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521630078 |
This 1999 book offers an original study of lyric form and social custom in the Elizabethan age. Ilona Bell explores the tendency of Elizabethan love poems not only to represent an amorous thought, but to conduct the courtship itself. Where studies have focused on courtiership, patronage and preferment at court, her focus is on love poetry, amorous courtship, and relations between Elizabethan men and women. The book examines the ways in which the tropes and rhetoric of love poetry were used to court Elizabethan women (not only at court and in the great houses, but in society at large) and how the women responded to being wooed, in prose, poetry and speech. Bringing together canonical male poets and women writers, Ilona Bell investigates a range of texts addressed to, written by, read, heard or transformed by Elizabethan women, and charts the beginnings of a female lyric tradition.
Society and Religion in Elizabethan England
Title | Society and Religion in Elizabethan England PDF eBook |
Author | Richard L. Greaves |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 939 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Christian sociology |
ISBN | 1452911673 |
Two Elizabethan Women
Title | Two Elizabethan Women PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Thynne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Crises in the Lives of Elizabethan Women
Title | Crises in the Lives of Elizabethan Women PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Idonia Garrett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 682 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
The Elizabethan Woman
Title | The Elizabethan Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Carroll Camden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
Elizabethan Women
Title | Elizabethan Women PDF eBook |
Author | Gamaliel Bradford |
Publisher | Beaufort Books |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England
Title | Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Stretton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005-11-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521023252 |
This book examines gender relations in Shakespeare's England by looking at women's involvement in lawsuits in the largest courts in the land. It describes women's rights in theory and in practice, considers depictions of women in court scenes in plays, and analyzes the language and tactics women and their lawyers employed in pleadings. The book also reveals how many women went to law, how active they were, the discrimination they suffered, and the importance of the life cycle of marriage in determining their legal fortunes.