Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama brings together, for the first time, a significant collection of critical and historical essays.

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama collects together for the first time the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. The essays cover the following playwrights: Joanna Lumley Elizabeth Cary Mary Sidney Mary Wroth the Cavendish sisters Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: key critical essays on drama by women in the early modern period, by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics a preface and introduction explaining the selection and contexts of the materials a bibliography of secondary sources Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this revalatory and growing area of inquiry.