ABSTRACT
Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and criticisms, both on various groups and individual authors. The work on Mary Wroth has been particularly impressive at integrating her poetry, prose and drama into the canon. This in turn has led to comparative studies that link Wroth to a number of male and female writers, including of course, William Shakespeare. At the same time no single volume has attempted a comprehensive comparative analysis. This book sets out to explore the ways in which Wroth negotiated the discourses that are embedded in the Shakespearean canon in order to develop an understanding of her oeuvre based, not on influence and imitation, but on difference, originality and innovation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|51 pages
Poetry, Circulation, Influence
chapter |12 pages
Escaping the Void
part |51 pages
Genre and Gender
chapter |11 pages
Wroth's Love's Victory as a Response to Shakespeare's Representation of Gender Distinctions
chapter |11 pages
Four Weddings, Two Funerals, and Tragicomic Resurrection
part |40 pages
Querying Identity