Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England - Luckyj, Christina (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
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This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny. Like their male contemporaries, including Shakespeare, early modern women writers deployed female voices to craft powerful new discourses of religious and political liberty.

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This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny. Like their male contemporaries, including Shakespeare, early modern women writers deployed female voices to craft powerful new discourses of religious and political liberty.
Autorenporträt
Christina Luckyj is McCulloch Chair and Professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of 'A Winter's Snake:' Dramatic Form in the Tragedies of John Webster (1989) and 'A Moving Rhetoricke:' Gender and Silence in Early Modern England (2002) as well as editor of The White Devil (2008) and The Duchess of Malfi: A Critical Guide (2011). She co-edited (with Niamh J. O'Leary) The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England (2017), which won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Award for Best Collaborative Project published in 2017. Her new Introduction to the New Cambridge Shakespeare Othello (third edition) appeared in 2018 and she is currently editing The Winter's Tale for the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions.