Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival Seven Sacred Plays

Name: Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival Seven Sacred Plays
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ISBN: 9780226685168

ISBN-10: 0226685160

ISBN-13: 9780226685168

Edition: 1996

Authors: Antonia Pulci, James Wyatt Cook, Barbara Collier Cook, James W. Cook, Barbara C. Cook

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A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni--one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.93" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Editors' Introduction to the Series


Acknowledgments


Antonia Pulci and Her Plays


The Play of Saint Francis


The Play of Saint (Flavia) Domitilla


The Play of Saint Guglielma


The Play of the Prodigal Son


The Play of Saint Anthony the Abbot


The Play of Saint Theodora


The Play and Festival of Rosana


The Second Part of the Festival of Ulimentus and of Rosana


Index