TY - JOUR

T1 - Dramatizing home and memory

T2 - Lady Mary Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth

AU - Findlay, Alison

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - The article discusses two plays by noblewomen: Lady Mary Sidney Herbert's translation The Tragedy of Antony (1998[1591]) and Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral tragicomedy Love's Victory (1614-16), to explore how drama, as a genre, provides unique opportunities for remaking home as a woman's space. Irigaray's vision of woman's self-dispossession within the home and Elizabeth Grosz's injunction to recover a female-centered chora, provide a framework to read the texts. Drawing on the classical idea of a memory-theater, the article analyzes how the scripts creatively manipulate relationships between domestic venues and settings in order to reshape memories and promote alternative constructions of woman's place.

AB - The article discusses two plays by noblewomen: Lady Mary Sidney Herbert's translation The Tragedy of Antony (1998[1591]) and Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral tragicomedy Love's Victory (1614-16), to explore how drama, as a genre, provides unique opportunities for remaking home as a woman's space. Irigaray's vision of woman's self-dispossession within the home and Elizabeth Grosz's injunction to recover a female-centered chora, provide a framework to read the texts. Drawing on the classical idea of a memory-theater, the article analyzes how the scripts creatively manipulate relationships between domestic venues and settings in order to reshape memories and promote alternative constructions of woman's place.

KW - Home

KW - Memory

KW - Memory-theater

KW - Drama

KW - Early

KW - Modern

KW - Women

U2 - 10.2752/175174209X416562

DO - 10.2752/175174209X416562

M3 - Journal article

VL - 6

SP - 135

EP - 147

JO - Home Cultures

JF - Home Cultures

SN - 1740-6315

IS - 2

ER -