Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections

230 Pages·2006·9.738 MB·English

by  Katherine Romack, James Fitzmaurice

CAVENDISH AND SHAKESPEARE,
INTERCONNECTIONS

Cavendish and Shakespeare,
Interconnections
Edited by
KATHERINE ROMACK
University of West Florida, USA
JAMES FITZMAURICE
Northern Arizona University, USA, and University of Sheffield, UK
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Cavendish and Shakespeare, interconnections
l.Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674-Criticism and
interpretation 2.Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Influence
!.Romack, Katherine II.Fitzmaurice, James, 1943-
822.4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cavendish and Shakespeare, interconnections I edited by Katherine Romack and James
Fitzmaurice.
p.cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7546-5453-2 (alk. paper)
1. Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674-Dramatic works. 2.
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674-Knowledge-Literature. 3.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Adaptations-History and criticism. 4. Women and
literature-England-History-17th century. 5. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-
Influence. I. Romack, Katherine. II. Fitzmaurice, James, 1943-
PR3605.N2Z64 2006
828'.409-dc22
2005017383
ISBN 9780754654537 (hbk)
Contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections
Katherine Romack and James Fitzmaurice
"Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe": Affiliation and
Memorialization in Margaret Cavendish's Playes and Plays, Never
before Printed 7
Shannon Miller
2 Shakespeare, Cavendish, and Reading Aloud in Seventeenth-Century
England 29
James Fitzmaurice
3 Drama's Olio: A New Way to Serve Old Ingredients in The Religious
and The Matrimonial Trouble 47
Erna Kelly
4 Dining at the Table of Sense: Shakespeare, Cavendish, and The
Convent of Pleasure 63
Brandie R. Siegfried
5 Testifying in the Court of Public Opinion: Margaret Cavendish
Reworks The Winter's Tale 85
Alexandra G. Bennett
6 Gender, the Political Subject, and Dramatic Authorship:
Margaret Cavendish's Loves Adventures and the Shakespearean
Example 103
Mihoko Suzuki
7 Old Playwrights, Old Soldiers, New Martial Subjects: The
Caven dishes and the Drama of Soldiery 121
Vimala C. Pasupathi
vi Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections
8 Enlarging Margaret: Cavendish, Shakespeare, and French Women
Warriors and Writers 147
Amy Scott-Douglass
9 The Unnatural Tragedy and Familial Absolutisms 179
Karen Raber
10 "I wonder she should be so Infamous for a Whore?": Cleopatra
Restored 193
Katherine Romack
Index 213
List of Figures
1.1 Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
(Third Folio, 1664). Title Page. 13" x 8 Ys ." The Folger
Shakespeare Library. 24
1.2 Martin Droeshout. Portrait of William Shakespeare. Mr. William
Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (Third Folio,
1664). Title Page. 13" x 8 Ys ." The Folger Shakespeare Library. 25
1.3 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
(First Folio,1623). Title Page. 26" x 16 %. " The Folger
Shakespeare Library. 26
1.4 Margaret Cavendish. Plays, Never before Printed (1668). Title
Page. 12" x 7." The Folger Shakespeare Library. 27
1.5 Abraham van Diepenbeke. Portrait of Margaret Cavendish. Plays,
Never before Printed (1668). Frontispiece. 12" x 7." The Henry
E. Huntington Library. 28
8.1 Jean Baptiste-Masse [after Peter Paul Rubens]. Marie de Medici
(1708). Engraving. 57 x 36 em. The Museum of Art and
Archeology, University of Missouri at Columbia. Gift of Donald
S. Dawson in memory of his wife Ilona Massey Dawson. 173
8.2 Abraham van Diepenbeke. [Engraved by Peter van Schuppen].
Portrait of Margaret Cavendish. Philosophical and Physical
Opinions (1655). Frontispiece. 12" x 7." The Henry E. Huntington
Library. 174
8.3 Nicolaas Visscher the elder [in collaboration with Comelis
Danckerts the elder], The Battle of the Amazons [after Rubens]
(c. 1638-1656). 842 x 1175 mm. Antwerp, Rubenshouse. The
Fotodienst. 175
8.4 Grinling Gibbons, The Cavendishes' effigies at Westminster
Abbey. Marble, Westminster Abbey. Copyright: Dean and
Chapter of Westminster. 176
8.5 Detail of Margaret Cavendish's effigy, Westminster Abbey.
Copyright: Dean and Chapter of Westminster. 177
8.6 Side panel of Margaret Cavendish's sarcophagus, Westminster
Abbey. Copyright: Dean and Chapter of Westminster. 178
Notes on Contributors
Alexandra G. Bennett teaches Renaissance literature and drama at Northern
lllinois University, where she is an Assistant Professor of English. She has edited
two plays by Margaret Cavendish for Broadview Press (Bell in Campo and the
Sociable Companions, 2002), and has published work on Cavendish, Elizabeth
Cary, Mary Wroth, and others in various journals and collections. She is currently
working on a book-length study of female dramatists of the English Renaissance
and their contexts, and is preparing the first printed edition of Elizabeth Polwhele's
The Faithful Virgins (c.l675).
James Fitzmaurice holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Occidental
College, an MA in English from California State University, Long Beach, and a
Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. Currently he is Professor of English
at Northern Arizona University and Director of Distance Education for the School
of English at the University of Sheffield (UK). He has been a postdoctoral fellow
at Yale University and a senior visiting research fellow at Gonville and Caius
College, Cambridge University. He has taught on faculty exchange at the
University of Tuebingen in Germany and at Nottingham Trent University in the
UK. He has published articles on the following writers from the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries: Aphra Behn, Thomas Carew, Margaret Cavendish, Ben
Jonson, Dorothy Osborne, William, Duke of Newcastle, and Jane Barker. He was
general editor for Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England and has
edited Margaret Cavendish: The Sociable Letters as well as Newcastle's The
Humorous Lovers.
Erna Kelly, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,
teaches seventeenth-century literature, Shakespeare, and women's literature. Her
most recent publication is on Margaret Cavendish's drama, "Playing with
Religion" in EMLS (May 2004). Other publications include essays on women's
autobiography, "Portraits: Self and Other" in Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women
Writers (200 1) and "Diaries and Journals" in Reader's Guide to Women's Studies
(1998); women's poetry, "Women's Wit" in Seventeenth-Century Wit (1995) and
cavalier poets, "'Small Type of Great Ones': Richard Lovelace's Separate Peace"
in The English Civil Wars and the Literary Imagination (1999).
Notes on Contributors ix
Shannon Miller is an Associate Professor at Temple University. She is the author
of Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1998), and of articles on seventeenth-century women writers
including Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, and Lucy Hutchinson. Her current
project, entitled "Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century
Women Writers," places women writers such as Lanyer, Cavendish, Hutchinson,
and Aphra Behn in conversation with Milton's Paradise Lost.
Vimala C. Pasupathi is finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her doctoral research focuses on the representation of soldiers and British
nationalism in English Drama, 1590-1660.
Karen Raber is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
She is the author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early
Modern Closet Drama (University of Delaware Press, 200 I), coeditor with Ivo
Kamps of Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004),
and coeditor with Treva J. Tucker of The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline
and Identity in the Early Modern World (Palgrave, 2004).
Katherine Romack is an Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida
where she teaches in the Department of English and Foreign Languages. She is
currently at work on a book entitled Gender, Politics and Play on the Interregnum
Stage. Her essays on seventeenth-century women include "Monstrous Births and
the Body Politic: The Strange and Wonderful Travail of 'Mistris Parliament' and
"Mris. Rump"' in Debating Gender (Palgrave, 2001) and "Margaret Cavendish,
Shakespeare Critic" in A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare (Blackwell, 2000).
Amy Scott-Douglass is an Assistant Professor of English at Denison University.
She has published articles on Tudor and Stuart drama, Shakespeare in
performance, and early modern women writers. She is currently finishing a
monograph on paratextual materials to literature by seventeenth-century women.
Her other book, dealing with Shakespeare prison, military, and work-study
programs in the United States, will be published by Continuum Press in 2006.
Brandie R. Siegfried is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Brigham
Young University. She has published in various journals, including Early Modern
Literary Studies, Shakespeare Yearbook, Sixteenth Century Studies, Reading Early
Modern Women, George Herbert Journal, Literature and Belief and the Annual of
the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature. She is currently
polishing her first book, The Women's Line: Literary Conquest in the Wake of
Elizabeth Tudor, 1603-1700, and is in the early stages of her second book project,
The Literary History ofG race 0 'Malley, 1550-2005.