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The Woman in the Moon: By John Lyly
David Bevington
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Paperback. His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly's most entertaining plays. Editor(s): Scragg, Leah. Series: Revels Plays Companion Library. Num Pages: 158 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 206.
His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly's most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has been read as highly misogynistic, and as a sixteenth-century feminist manifesto. The biblical version of the creation of woman is overturned in the first scene when the play's supreme deity, Nature, presents her ultimate creation, Pandora (memorably played in 1928 by Katharine Hepburn), to a group of Utopian shepherds, who compete for her love. Their amatory pursuit is complicated by the seven planets, whose ... Read more
His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly's most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has been read as highly misogynistic, and as a sixteenth-century feminist manifesto. The biblical version of the creation of woman is overturned in the first scene when the play's supreme deity, Nature, presents her ultimate creation, Pandora (memorably played in 1928 by Katharine Hepburn), to a group of Utopian shepherds, who compete for her love. Their amatory pursuit is complicated by the seven planets, whose ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
158
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Revels Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719072451
SKU
V9780719072451
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About David Bevington
Leah Scragg is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. -- .
Reviews for The Woman in the Moon: By John Lyly
This thoroughly annotated volume provides a detailed study of the play's sources.
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