Bell in Campo and the Sociable Companions

Name: Bell in Campo and the Sociable Companions
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ISBN: 9781551112879

ISBN-10: 1551112876

ISBN-13: 9781551112879

Edition: 2002

Authors: Margaret Cavendish, Alexandra G. Bennett

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Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions are scathing satires that speak to the role of women's agency amidst this cultural tumult. In Bell in Campo, a group of virtuous women follow their husbands to war and, refusing to remain docilely out of harm's way, form an army of their own. The Sociable Companions details the struggles of four women from impoverished Royalist families trying to survive in a rapacious marriage market at the war's end.This Broadview Edition presents these two complementary plays together, along with supplementary…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 2/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Margaret Cavendish: A Brief Chronology


A Note on the Texts


Bell in Campo


The Sociable Companions



Selections from Margaret Cavendish's Autobiography



The Purposes of Plays: Selections from Prefaces to Playes (1662)



Warrior Women and Royalist Disorder: Letters from the Front



Warrior Women: The Queen and the War



Marriage Markets: Selections from Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters (1664)


Selected Bibliography