Florentine drama for convent and festival seven sacred plays / [electronic resource] :
Antonia Pulci ; annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook ; edited by James Wyatt Cook and Barbara Collier Cook.
- University of Chicago Press, c1996.
- 1 online resource (xxx, 281 p.)
- Other voice in early modern Europe .
- Other voice in early modern Europe. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-46) and index.
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.