Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival : Seven Sacred Plays Hardback
by Antonia Pulci
Edited by James Wyatt Cook
Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series series
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A poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order.
During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several "Sacre Rappresentazioni" - one-act plays on Christian subjects.
Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women.
Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular.
Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/10/1996
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- ISBN:9780226685168
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/10/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226685168
