This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

• Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing
  
• Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
  
• Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study
  This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

• Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing
  
• Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
  
• Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study
  This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

Situates Shakespeare's last tragedy within its own historical period and presents a reappraisal of its representation of class conflict. This book also provides a re-valuation of Volumnia's role in the play, arguing that she is not depicted as a bad mother