Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Concepts of Womanhood in Early Modern England

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3. Emerging New Attitudes towards Women in Early Jacobean England

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4. Female Selfhood and Ideologies of Marriage in Early Jacobean Drama: The Duchess of Malfi and The Tragedy of Mariam

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   Pages 49-86

5. Lady Mary Wroth and Ideologies of Marriage in Late Jacobean England

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6. Representing Elizabeth I in Jacobean England

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7. Women and Publishing Their Works in the Late Jacobean Years

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8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.

• self
• selfhood
• autonomy
• female agency
• Mary Wroth
• Urania
• Love's Victory
• romance
• Shakespeare
• Jonson
• Philip Sidney
• William Herbert
• Swetnam
• Chamberlain
• pastoral
• Webster
• Marston
• Elizabeth Cary
• Anne Clifford
• Mary Sidney Herbert

• Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan

  Akiko Kusunoki

Akiko Kusunoki is Emeritus Professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan. She held the role of President of the Shakespeare Society of Japan, and is on the board of trustees of the International Shakespeare Association. She has published, both in Japanese and English, works on Shakespeare and women writers in early modern England.

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