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Lanyer a Renaissance woman poet / by Woods, Susanne, 1943-

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Woman and art in early modern Latin America

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender /

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The sword and the pen women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / by Eisenbichler, Konrad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. …”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…The strange case of a wicked and cruel woman.…”
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From metaphysics to midrash myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / by Magid, Shaul, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Kabbala, new historicism, and the question of boundaries -- The Lurianic myth: a playbill -- Genesis: "And Adam's sin was (very) great": original sin in Lurianic exegesis -- Exodus: The "other" Israel: the ʻerev rav (mixed multitude) as conversos -- Leviticus: The sin of becoming a woman: male homosexuality and the castration complex -- Numbers: Balaam, Moses, and the prophecy of the "other": a Lurianic vision for the erasure of difference -- Deuteronomy: the human and/as God: divine incarnation and the "image of God".…”
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English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. …”
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Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Gaming the Stage : Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage : Boy Heroines and Female Pages / by Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

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