Contents
Introduction
A Communal Affair
Essays
Eloquence Unchained
Liberty and Civility
Forum: Early Modern Women’s Mobilities
Transience and Impoverished London Mothers
“The Indian Woman Peggy”
Mobility and Prostitution in Early Modern Venice
Catholic Englishwomen’s Mobilities in an Age of Persecution
Early Modern Women’s Mobility in French Women’s Theater
A Tale of Two Johannas
“Every Jolt Will Squash Their Guts”
A Taste of Empire
Nell Gwynn, by Jessica Swale
The Disobedient Child by Thomas Ingelend
La Mirtilla, by Isabella Andreini
Lacrime amare: Bianca Maria Meda Motets. Candace Smith and Cappella Artemisia
The Duchess of Suffolk
Infanticide, Secular Justice, and Religious Debate in Early Modern Europe
The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel
Early Modern Women’s Writing
The Devout Hand
A Day at Home in Early Modern England
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
The Ship of Virtuous Ladies
Love, Madness, and Scandal
The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar
Women Writing the English Republic
Artemisia Gentileschi in a Changing Light
Women Writing Fancy
Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy
Mademoiselle de Montpensier
Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion
Elizabeth I and Her Circle
The Buffoons, A Ridiculous Comedy
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women
Witness, Warning, and Prophecy: Quaker Women’s Writing
Elizabeth I in Writing
Mirtilla, A Pastoral
The Riddle of Jael
Women’s Deliberation
Editing Women’s Writing
The Well-Ordered Universe
Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife
Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament
Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence
Contributors