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Goddesses, mages, and wise women : the female pastoral guide in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English drama /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Sharon R.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Selinsgrove, PA : Susquehanna University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Pastoral drama, English > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The early guide as "the light in the sky"
  • Mages and sages versus the witch
  • Queens and goddesses: Endymion, Midsummer night's dream, and Love's victory
  • The pastoral guide: the mage and female scholar
  • The faithful shepherdess: handmaiden of the great god Pan
  • Subversive wise woman: the doctor she of All's well that ends well
  • "Curing by counsel": Rosalind of As you like it
  • "And afterwards".