(Stephanie Merritt's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/8;Photo: Child prodigy Elizabeth Cary, the author of the first published play by a woman in English. Photograph: Magite Historic/Alamy.) This lively, accessible insight into a quartet of female writers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England explores the complex political, patriarchal and religious backdrop to their lives Virginia Woolf, in […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:44PM on April 12, 2024