The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama: Plotting Women's Biology on the Stage

by Ursula A. Potter

This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women's sexual health as presented on the early modern stage, and how dramatists coded for it. Beginning with the rise of green sickness (the disease of virgins) from its earliest reference in drama in the 1560s, Ursula Potter traces a continuing fascination with the womb by dramatists through to the oxymoron of the chaste sex debate in the 1640s. She analyzes how playwrights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580443702
• ISBN13: 9781580443708
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary