CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Women as Protagonists in Male-Authored Drama: Comedy and Tragedy
Chapter 1: Fathers, Daughters, Crossdressing, and Names: Women, Rhetoric, and Education in Commedia Erudita
Coda to Chapter 1: Margherita Costa’s Li buffoni (1641): The First (Extant) Female-Authored Scripted Comedy
Chapter 2: Fashioning a Genealogy: The Rhetoric of Friendship and Female Virtue in Italian Renaissance Tragedy
Coda to Chapter 2: Valeria Miani’s Celinda (1611) Among Fin de Siècle Italian Tragedies
Part II. Women as Authors/ Women as Protagonists: Pastoral Tragicomedy
Chapter 3: Women Writers and the Canon: Satyr Scenes in Female-Authored Pastoral Drama
Chapter 4: Isabetta Coreglia’s Dori (1634): Writing Pastoral Drama Against the Backdrop of the Male Canon and an Incipient Female-Authored Tradition
Chapter 5: Isabetta Coreglia’s Erindo il fido (1650) and Isabella Andreini’s Mirtilla (1588): Using A Female-Authored Classic as Paradigm
Appendix: excerpts from Isabetta Coreglia’s Raccolta manuscript
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alexandra Coller is Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Program at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA.
"The intriguing glimpses into unknown plays, both male- and female-authored, plus the richly documented scholarship make this work very useful and likely to lead to many future explorations."
- Janet Levarie Smarr, University Of California, San Diego
