Ramie Targoff

Broschiertes Buch

Shakespeare's Sisters

Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

Beschreibung

A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity by scholar and critically acclaimed author, Ramie Targoff.

Autor

RAMIE TARGOFF is the Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities and Co-Chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several award-winning books on Renaissance English poetry, as well as a biography and translation of the sixteenth-century Italian poet Vittoria Colonna. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 125mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781529404913
• ISBN-10: 1529404916
• Artikelnr.: 72109645

Rezensionen

Ramie Targoff has written a vivid, finely crafted portrait of four extraordinary Renaissance women whose writing, long buried in archives, defied all the rules. Mary Sidney's translations, Aemilia Lanyer's poems, Anne Clifford's diaries, and Elizabeth Cary's dramas contained radical messages of autonomy at a time when women had few legal rights and almost no access to education. Raised to keep quiet and obey their husbands, these writers kept diaries, created female heroines, and gave women starring roles on the stage and page. Targoff, an esteemed scholar of Renaissance literature, restores these women to the starring roles they deserve in this fresh, galavanting, and indispensable history of Renaissance England. Shakespeare's Sisters challenges and expands our historical memory in sweeping, cinematic prose. Scholarly storytelling at its finest. Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath