Female Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish's Plays.

From: Early Modern Literary Studies | Date: May 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Female Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish's Plays

Joyce Devlin Mosher

Colorado Mountain College

dgjl@iup.edu

Mosher, Joyce Devlin. "Female Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish's Plays". Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May, 2005) 7.1-28 .

When Margaret Cavendish visited the Royal Society in London in 1667, she was wearing a gown with an eight-foot train ...

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