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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 -