TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pulci,Antonia
AU  - Cook,James Wyatt
AU  - Cook,Barbara Collier
TI  - Florentine drama for convent and festival: seven sacred plays 
T2  - Other voice in early modern Europe
SN  - 0226685187 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PQ4630.P8 A23 1996eb
U1  - 852/.3 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Pulci, Antonia,
KW  - Religious drama, Italian
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - Continental European
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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