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A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'.

Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and references
Introduction
The historical context
The plays
The texts
Stage histories
The plays
John Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase (ed. Sophie Tomlinson)
James Shirley, The Bird in a Cage (ed. Julie Sanders)
Margaret Cavendish, The Convent of Pleasure (ed. Hero Chalmers)
Appendices
A: Press variants
B: Commendatory verses to The Wild-Goose Chase (1652)
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 11/30/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719063398, 978-0719063398
      ISBN10: 0719063396

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'.

      Table of Contents

      General Editors' Preface
      Acknowledgements
      Abbreviations and references
      Introduction
      The historical context
      The plays
      The texts
      Stage histories
      The plays
      John Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase (ed. Sophie Tomlinson)
      James Shirley, The Bird in a Cage (ed. Julie Sanders)
      Margaret Cavendish, The Convent of Pleasure (ed. Hero Chalmers)
      Appendices
      A: Press variants
      B: Commendatory verses to The Wild-Goose Chase (1652)
      Index

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