Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays

Name: Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays
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ISBN: 9780801861000

ISBN-10: 0801861004

ISBN-13: 9780801861000

Edition: 1999

Authors: Margaret Cavendish, Anne Shaver

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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (including The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramatic works that are among the most revealing of her attitudes toward marriage and her desire for fame. Loves Adventures (1662)…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/18/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Chronology


Note on Editorial Method


Introduction: Margaret Cavendish's Life as a Writer


Loves Adventures. Play


The Second Part of Loves Adventures


The First Part of Bell in Campo


The Second Part of Bell in Campo


The Bridals. A Comedy


The Convent of Pleasure. A Comedy


Appendixes



Dedicatory Poems and Author's Epistles Preceding the Texts in Playes, 1662



An Introduction, 1662



Epistle Appended to Playes, 1662



Author's Epistle Preceding Plays Never Before Printed, 1668



Errata


Selected Bibliography