The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: With the Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters

by Elizabeth Cary

Book Overview

Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520079698
• ISBN13: 9780520079694
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting...

An interesting read, taking place in roughly the same time as Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Not quite as engaging as the latter author, but worthy of investigation nevertheless.

A Woman's Othello

The particular importance of this book lies in the fact that it is the first edition to include the Tragedy of Mariam into its biographical context, by publishing the text with Elizabeth's Cary's biography written by one of her daughter. The editors include a very thorough introduction in which they strongly claim the richness and greatness of the text, not only because it is the first play ever written by an English woman, but also because of its investigation of paramount issues such as gender, politics, and race. In addition to this, the editors include an appendix where they give the readers a chance to know about the original source that Cary might have used in her play.