Florentine drama for convent and festival [electronic resource] : seven sacred plays / Antonia Pulci ; annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook ; edited by James Wyatt Cook and Barbara Collier Cook.
By: Pulci, Antonia.
Contributor(s): Cook, James Wyatt | Cook, Barbara Collier.
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TextSeries: Other voice in early modern Europe: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1996Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 281 p.).ISBN: 0226685187 (electronic bk.); 9780226685182 (electronic bk.).Uniform titles: Works. English. 1996 Subject(s): Pulci, Antonia, 1452-1501 -- Translations into English | Religious drama, Italian -- Translations into English | DRAMA -- Continental EuropeanGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Florentine drama for convent and festival.DDC classification: 852/.3 LOC classification: PQ4630.P8 | A23 1996ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost | Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-46) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Editors' Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Antonia Pulci and Her Plays; The Play of St. Francis; The Play of Saint (Flavia) Domitilla; The Play of Saint Gugliema; The Play of the Prodigal Son; The Play of Saint Anthony the Abbot; The Play of Saint Theodora; The Play and Festival of Rosana; The Second Part of the Festival of Ulimentus and Rosana; Index;
A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni?one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, thes.
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