EAN: 9781529404906

SHAKESPEARES SISTERS - RAMIE TARGOFF KARTONIERT...

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the
Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their
craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own.' In 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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