The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines

In a Series of Fifteen Tales

By:

Mary Cowden Clarke

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–98) was the daughter of the publisher Vincent Novello. She produced a complete concordance to Shakespeare's works in 1845, and her fascination with the plays led to her publishing in 1850 a series of imaginative accounts of the girlhood of some of his heroines. Her motive was 'to imagine the possible circumstances and influences of scene, event, and associate, surrounding the infant life of his heroines, which might have conduced to originate and foster those germs of character recognised in their maturity as by him developed; to conjecture what might have been the first imperfect dawnings of that which he has shown us in the meridian blaze of perfection'. These 'prequels' offer a back-story which is surprising in its subversive interpretation of the plays and especially of the role of the 'hero'. Volume 1 includes the stories of Portia and Lady Macbeth.

Release date Australia

July 20th, 2009

Author

Mary Cowden Clarke

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

484

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

Dimensions

140x216x27

ISBN-13

9781108001267

Product ID

3157091

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