Ramie Targoff - Shakespeare's Sisters Four Women Who Wrote the R

Pages Count - 320. Binding type - Hardcover.
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The item is a book Hardback
The Author Name is Ramie Targoff
The Title is Shakespeare's Sisters : Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

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Pages Count - 320. Binding type - Hardcover.
Category - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory


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Discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissancewomen who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of ShakespeareIn an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some readers may have heard of Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney, but few will have heard of Aemilia Lanyer, the first woman in the 17th century to publish a book of original poetry, which offered a feminist take on the crucifixion, or Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play by a woman, about the plight of the Jewish princess Mariam. Then there was Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist, who fought for decades against a patriarchy that tried to rob her of her land in one of England's most infamous inheritance battles. These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding rooms of their own where doors had been shut for centuries. Targoff flings them open to uncover the treasures left by these extraordinary women in the process, she helps us see the Renaissance in a fresh light, creating a richer understanding of history and offering a much-needed female perspective on life in Shakespeare's day.

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