Saints' Lives and Bible Stories for the Stage: A Bilingual Edition Volume 7

by Antonia Pulci

This fresh translation of five plays securely authored by Antonia Pulci--one of the first published women writers in Renaissance Florence--reveals this gifted dramatist at her finest. Intended primarily for a convent audience, Pulci's plays give us a fascinating glimpse into how theatrical expressions of female religiosity were animated by both exemplary female saints' lives and contemporary debates over marriage and virginity. There is much to recommend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0772720738
• ISBN13: 9780772720733
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"