Amorous Hope, A Pastoral Play – A Bilingual Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Valeria Miani, Alexandra Coller, Alexandra Coller

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A seventeenth-century play showing the reality of life for women. Valeria Miani’s Amorous Hope is a play of remarkable richness, subtlety, and verve. It presents a scathing exposure of society’s double-standards and it champions women’s dramatic agency by centering on the bleak reality they often faced, a reality that attempted to harm and silence its victims. The play’s salient episodes reflect realities modern women still face today. Miani’s literary achievements attest to her emergence as a cultural protagonist alongside Europe’s most talented women writers, such as Isabella Andreini, and she challenged the premodern notion that a woman’s eloquence is an indication of her sexual promiscuity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-02-25
Mått159 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOther Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
Antal sidor368
FörlagIter Press
ISBN9781649590268

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Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction The Other Voice Life, Works, and Afterlife of Valeria Miani The Ricovrati of Padua The Ricovrati on the Education of Women Miani among the “Illustrious and Famous Poets of Italy”: Contributions to Polinnia (1609) and the Gareggiamento poetico (1611) Miani’s Madrigal in Paolo Bozi’s Vita, attioni, miracoli (1614) Miani’s Amorosa speranza and Female-Authored Pastoral Drama Amorosa speranza: Structure and Themes Note on the Italian Text Note on the Transcription Note on the Translation Amorosa speranza / Amorous Hope Notes to the Italian Text Notes to the English Translation Appendix Selections from Polinnia Selections from Gareggiamento poetico, Le Lodi (Part Four) Bibliography Index

“Joining recent publications of other drama by Italian women around 1600, Miani’s Amorous Hope is a work of considerable interest by a playwright only recently becoming better known after long neglect. Coller’s introduction, which makes use of excellent and up-to-date scholarship, persuasively presents Miani’s participation within a network of literati and academia members and pursues this topic of interconnections through a detailed account of her poems published in anthologies alongside the verses of others. Its discussion of the play focuses on Miani’s treatment of the main issue: male injustices to women, and the corrections or penalties delivered by the two leading female characters. As Coller points out, the lessons given by female characters are also the lessons to the audience by the playwright herself.”