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The cultural identity of seventeenth-century woman a reader /

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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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A woman killed with kindness and other domestic plays

Table of Contents: “…A chronology of the plays and their genre -- The tragedy of master Arden of Faversham -- A woman killed with kindness -- The witch of Edmonton -- The English traveller -- Appendix 1: the unknown author of Arden of Faversham -- Appendix 2: the date of The English traveller -- Explanatory notes -- Glossary.…”
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Whether a Christian woman should be educated and other writings from her intellectual circle by Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender /

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Emblems of eloquence opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / by Heller, Wendy Beth

Table of Contents: “…The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.…”
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Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism Louis XIV and the Port Royal nuns / by Kostroun, Daniella J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Jansenism as a "woman problem" -- Controversy and reform at Port Royal -- Jansenism's political turn, 1652-1661 -- The limits to obedience, 1661-1664 -- A feminist response to absolutism, 1664-1669 -- The unsettled peace, 1669-1679 -- A royal victory, 1679-1709.…”
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Women at law in early colonial Maryland by Witkowski, Monica C., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…: violent crimes -- "Nor a woman chaste" : sexual offenses -- Maryland women and property -- Conclusion : a "race of convicts"?.…”
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Warnings to the kings and advice on restoring Spain by Guevara, María de, d. 1683

Table of Contents: “…Tratado y advertencias hechas por una mujer celosa del bien de su Rey y corrida de parte de España (1663) = Treatise and warnings by a woman, concerned for the good of her king, and affronted by part of Spain (1663) -- Desengaños de la corte, y mujeres valerosas (1664) = Disenchantments at the court and valorous women (1664).…”
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Household servants in early modern domestic tragedy by Sheeha, Iman

Table of Contents: “…I will kill my master: Murderous Service in The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham -- An honest knave: Servants in A Warning for Fair Women -- Down goes the house of us: Serving the Dysfunctional Household in Thomas Middleton's A Yorkshire Tragedy -- A house in a sweet pickle: Servants and Disordered Domesticity in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness -- Conclusion.…”
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Eminent nuns women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / by Grant, Beata, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.…”
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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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