The Convent Of Pleasure And Other Plays

Download The Convent Of Pleasure And Other Plays full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Convent Of Pleasure And Other Plays ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays by : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle

Download or read book The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (including The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramatic works that are among the most revealing of her attitudes toward marriage and her desire for fame. Loves Adventures (1662) centers on a woman succeeding in war and diplomacy by passing as a man. Similarly, the heroine of Bell in Campo (1662) rescues her husband at the head of an army of women in this tale of a marriage of near equals. The Convent of Pleasure (1668) proposes a separatist community of women and has received attention for its suggestion of lesbian sexuality. The Bridals (1662), a more typical restoration comedy satirizing marriage, rounds out the collection. Edited with notes and annotation by Anne Shaver, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays also contains a timeline, biography and bibliography of the Duchess, an appreciation of Cavendish's life and work, and a bibliography of critical essays. Also included are all of Cavendish's epistles To the Reader as well as Other Preliminary Matter from Playes (1662), and Cavendish's original preface to Plays Never Before Printed (1668). A valuable collection from an extraordinary writer, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays raises important issues about women and gender.

The Convent of Pleasure

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Young Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780952553601
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Convent of Pleasure by : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle

Download or read book The Convent of Pleasure written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and published by Young Writers. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paper Bodies

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551111735
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (117 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Paper Bodies by : Margaret Cavendish

Download or read book Paper Bodies written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. “Paper Bodies” was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make “a great Blazing Light” after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish’s most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish’s brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.

The Blazing World

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365832120
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Blazing World by : Margaret Cavendish

Download or read book The Blazing World written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1666 Dystopian Science Fiction, Woman Author The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World. A Merchant travelling into a foreign Country, fell extreamly in Love with a young Lady; but being a stranger in that Nation, and beneath her, both in Birth and Wealth, he could have but little hopes of obtaining his desire; however his Love growing more and more vehement upon him, even to the slighting of all difficulties, he resolved at last to Steal her away; which he had the better opportunity to do, because her Father's house was not far from the Sea, and she often using to gather shells upon the shore accompanied not with above two to three of her servants it encouraged him the more to execute his design. Thus coming one time with a little leight Vessel, not unlike a Packet-boat, mann'd with some few Sea-men, and well victualled, for fear of some accidents, which might perhaps retard their journey, to the place where she used to repair; he forced her away...

The Female Academy

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692853238
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (532 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Female Academy by : Margaret Cavendish

Download or read book The Female Academy written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Margaret Cavendish published her first collection of dramatic work in 1662, she was keenly aware that none of her comedies or tragedies was unlikely to be acted, at least in her lifetime--but that did not deter her. "To those that do delight in scenes and wit / I dedicate my book," she writes at the beginning of the volume entitled, simply, "Plays." As for the hard reality that her plays were not to be produced? She has an answer for that as well: "For all the time my plays a-making were, / My brain the stage, my thoughts were acting there." "The Female Academy," the last play in her 1662 collection, opens with a fait accompli-a group of "old matrons" has established an educational institution devoted exclusively to the education of young women, "a house wherein a company of young ladies are instructed . . . to speak wittily and rationally, . . . to behave themselves handsomely, and to live virtuously." In this play, Cavendish presents the Female Academy as an institution created by women, inhabited solely by women, and operated for the benefit of women. The play also allows us to see the reactions of men, excluded from the Female Academy. Instead of ignoring the school, or wishing its young pupils well in their educational pursuits, men can't stay away-they hang around and spy on what's going on through "a large open grate" that allows them to hear the lectures being given inside. The play alternates scenes between the young women inside the Female Academy and the increasingly frustrated men in the outside world. This new edition, designed for classroom use, provides an ample introduction to Cavendish and her work, a carefully modernized text, with helpful glosses and notes, and a useful bibliography with references for further reading.

Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works

Author : Vanessa L. Rapatz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513346
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works by : Vanessa L. Rapatz

Download or read book Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works written by Vanessa L. Rapatz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.

Lace

Author : Shirley Conran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476725446
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Lace by : Shirley Conran

Download or read book Lace written by Shirley Conran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York's Pierre Hotel to meet Lili -- a beautiful, young, and notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili and each of them is astonished to see the others. They are old friends who share a guilty secret and who have for years been doing their best to keep that secret quiet. Their lives are changed forever, however, when Lili suddenly confronts them. When the women refuse to answer her, Lili proceeds to travel around the world through the playgrounds of the rich and famous, seeking to answer the question that has obsessed and almost destroyed her. From Paris to London, from the boardroom to the bedroom, Lace takes the reader into the rarified world of five unforgettable women who are as beautiful, as complex and as strong as...lace.

The Sixteen Pleasures

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569478112
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Sixteen Pleasures by : Robert Hellenga

Download or read book The Sixteen Pleasures written by Robert Hellenga and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and poetry, mystery and desire collide in this sensual and “elegantly moving” literary romance set in the cobbled streets and painted halls of Florence, Italy (New Yorker). Margot Harrington, an American volunteer in Florence, is an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she comes across a fabulous volume of 16 erotic drawings by Giulio Romano, accompanying 16 steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When first published over 4 centuries ago, the Vatican ordered all copies destroyed. This one—now unique—volume has survived. The abbess prevails upon Margot to save the order’s finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica discreetly—meaning without the bishop’s knowledge. Margot’s other clandestine project is a middle-aged Italian who is boldly attempting radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and soon her bed in this daring story of spiritual longing and earthly desire.

Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance

Author : Hero Chalmers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719063381
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance by : Hero Chalmers

Download or read book Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance written by Hero Chalmers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern drama, makes the texts of three much-discussed plays - John Fletcher's The Wild-Goose Chase, James Shirley's The Bird in a Cage and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure - available together in a full scholarly edition for the first time.The Wild Goose Chase (1621) and The Bird in a Cage (1633) were both performed in the commercial London theatres in the Jacobean and Caroline periods respectively. The Convent of Pleasure (1668) is a so-called 'closet' drama, designed primarily for reading but drawing on a tradition of aristocratic theatricals. In a wide-ranging co-authored introduction to the volume, the editors explore the concerns of these playtexts in relation to contemporary debates surrounding popular festivity and anti-theatricalism, as well as the agency of elite female culture in the Stuart period and the emergence of the professional female actor in the Restoration.The volume will be an invaluable teaching and research tool for students and scholars of early modern drama, women's writing and performance studies more generally, as well as providing a rich sourcebook for the reader interested in seventeenth-century theatrical culture.

Tartuffe and Other Plays

Author : Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698196678
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tartuffe and Other Plays by : Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Download or read book Tartuffe and Other Plays written by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven plays by the genius of French theater. Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright. Translated and with an Introduction by Donald M. Frame With a Foreword by Virginia Scott And a New Afterword by Charles Newell

Sanctified Subversives

Author : Horacio Sierra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443819417
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sanctified Subversives by : Horacio Sierra

Download or read book Sanctified Subversives written by Horacio Sierra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun’s role in the popular imagination via literature explores how writers on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide employed the role of the nun to showcase the powerful potential these women possessed in acting out as sanctified subversives. The texts under consideration include William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, María de Zayas’s The Disenchantments of Love, Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun, Catalina de Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s autobiographical and literary works. No other book addresses these issues through a concentrated study of these authors and their literary works, much less by offering an in-depth discussion of the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England, Spain, and Mexico.

Cavendish and Shakespeare

Author : Katherine Romack
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754654537
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (545 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cavendish and Shakespeare by : Katherine Romack

Download or read book Cavendish and Shakespeare written by Katherine Romack and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections explores the relationship between the plays of Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673). The essays contained in this volume fit together as studies of various sorts of influence, both literary and historical, setting Cavendish's appropriation of Shakespearean characters and plot structures within the context of the English Civil Wars and the Fronde.The essays trace Shakespeare's influence on Cavendish and explore the political implications of Cavendish's contribution to Shakespeare's reputation.

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama

Author : Christina M. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554810566
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama by : Christina M. Fitzgerald

Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama written by Christina M. Fitzgerald and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres—most notably, biblical drama—has been fundamentally altered. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has been widely praised for the degree to which it has taken this scholarship into account in its selection of and presentation of medieval plays. Now Broadview launches a new anthology that takes those plays as its base while expanding very substantially beyond them to represent the full range of drama in English (and, where strong connections exist, in French, Latin, Cornish, and Welsh as well) through to 1576. In all, over forty plays are included. Each work has been fully annotated and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. In many cases the language is to some extent modernized in order to make the plays more accessible to readers today.

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

Author : Claire Messud
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006765
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays by : Claire Messud

Download or read book Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays written by Claire Messud and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud’s own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature. In twenty-six intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. In the luminous title essay, she explores her drive to write, born of the magic of sharing language and the transformative powers of “a single successful sentence.” Together, these essays show the inner workings of a dazzling literary mind. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again "an absolute master storyteller" (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).

The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure

Author : Adam Williams
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466872276
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure by : Adam Williams

Download or read book The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure written by Adam Williams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern China, 1899. As the Boxer Rebellion erupts, a cast of innocents, fanatics, sinners, and lovers are drawn to the Palace of Heavenly Pleasure - an infamous brothel that overlooks an execution ground - where the fury of the East will meet the ideals of the West and all will face their destiny. Adam Williams's first novel is a historical tour-de-force and a triumphant return to traditional storytelling on a truly grand scale.

Nuns Behaving Badly

Author : Craig A. Monson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226534626
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Nuns Behaving Badly by : Craig A. Monson

Download or read book Nuns Behaving Badly written by Craig A. Monson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now. In Nuns Behaving Badly, Craig A. Monson resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the challenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desperate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation. In resurrecting these long-forgotten tales and trials, Monson also draws attention to the predicament of modern religious women, whose “misbehavior”—seeking ordination as priests or refusing to give up their endowments to pay for priestly wrongdoing in their own archdioceses—continues even today. The nuns of early modern Italy, Monson shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age—and beyond.

The Corner That Held Them

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373882
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Corner That Held Them by : Sylvia Townsend Warner

Download or read book The Corner That Held Them written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.