Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England PDF
Preview Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England
Copyright 2015. University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U.S. or applicable copyright law. EAABNcS:cC oO9u 0nP9tu3:b8 l6si 8s;3h 8iK1ni1gr7 i4:l keaB oSotka vArceavdae.m;i cW oCrodlsl eLcitkieo nD a(gEgBeSrCsO h:o sVti)o l-e nptr iFnetmeadl eo nS p1e1e/c2h9 /i2n0 2E1a r1l2y: 3M4o dPeMr nv iEan gland Words Like Daggers EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use Early Modern Cultural Studies Series Editors Carole Levin Marguerite A. Tassi EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use (cid:3)(cid:4) Words(cid:2) Like Daggers(cid:4) (cid:2) Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England Kirilka Stavreva University of Nebraska Press ◆ Lincoln and London EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use © 2015 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. Acknowledgment for the use of copyrighted material appears on page xi, which constitutes an exten- sion of the copyright page. All rights reserved. Manu- factured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Stavreva, Kirilka. Words like daggers: violent female speech in early modern England / Kirilka Stavreva. pages cm.— (Early modern cultural studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978- 0- 8032- 5488- 6 (hardback) isbn 978- 0- 8032- 8657- 3 (epub) isbn 978- 0- 8032- 8658- 0 (mobi) isbn 978- 0- 8032- 8659- 7 (pdf). 1. English literature— Early modern, 1500– 1700— History and criticism. 2. Women— England— Social conditions. 3. Language and languages in literature. 4. Women and literature— England— History. 5. Violence in literature. 6. Women in literature. I. Title. pr428.w63s73 2015 820.9'9287— dc23 2014025633 Set in Garamond Pro by Renni Johnson. Designed by A. Shahan. EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use A memorial to the sonorous shades of Stavri Fotev Stavrev (1924–9 5), Zafirka Georgieva Stavreva (1927–9 5), & Kristalina Stavreva Statkova (1951–2 010) EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use Contents List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender xiii 1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination 1 2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts 17 3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage 45 4. Witch- Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction 71 5. Courtly Witch- Speak on the Jacobean Stage 103 6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries” 129 Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory Listening 147 Notes 157 Bibliography 179 Index 195 EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use Illustrations 1. Mother Damnable of Kentish Town (undated) xvi 2. Emblem of the unruly tongue, engraved by Crispin de Passe 6 3. Illustration from The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches (1589) 91 viii EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use Acknowledgments This book would have come to a screeching halt without the inspi- ration and support granted by so many communities and individ- uals. My greatest debt is to the scholars, editors, and writers who have shed critical light on the lives, speech, and writing of early modern women. Among these, Carole Levin’s sparkling intellec- tual fervor, gentle friendship, and enthusiastic mentorship have proved, in Hamlet’s words, elements of “wondrous potency” that steadied me throughout the research and writing process. Words Like Daggers germinated from two sections of a chapter of my dissertation, and I am profoundly thankful to the community of the University of Iowa’s English Department for scholarly, finan- cial, and personal support during my graduate work. Huston Diehl (who did not live to see this project completed), Alan Nagel, Mir- iam Gilbert, and Alvin Snider helped me find an academic home in early modern studies; Garrett Stewart modeled the delight of creativity in close- grained analysis of sound and image; Eric Grif- fin, Kathryn Moncrief, Patrick Ryan, Kimball Smith, and the late Elizabeth Dietz, kindred spirits from “the tribe of Huston” all, made seminar work, archival research, conference presentations, and the critique of work- in- progress a joy; long since I received my Ph.D., the early modern reading group of the department, including, at several times, Doug Trevor, Gina Bloom, and Adam G. Hooks, continued to offer valuable insight on chapter drafts. At Cornell College, Cindy Benton, Tina Fetner, Michelle Mou- ton, Catherine Stewart, and Jama Stillwell offered helpful com- ments, direction, and camaraderie as I was learning how to inte- grate writing into my life as faculty at a liberal arts college. Michelle ix EBSCOhost - printed on 11/29/2021 12:34 PM via . All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use
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