Lady Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Viscountess Falkland Author Paper Due: June 10, 2001 Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary is an important literary figure worthy of study in the 21st century because she was a rebel with a cause for women’s rights, especially within marriage; because she became a rebel with a religious cause; and finally, because she was the first Englishwoman to write and publish a drama, The Tragedy of Mariam (1613). Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary was born in 1585, was the …showed first 75 words of 933 total…

…showed last 75 words of 933 total…Elizabeth Cary an important literary figure worthy of study in the 21st century. WORKS CITED Abrams, M.H. and Stephen Greenblatt, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th Ed, Vol. 1. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. 1508-10. Beilin, Elaine. Redeeming Eve. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. 153, 157, 164, 166, 169. Krontiris, Tina. Oppositional Voices. London: Routledge, 1992. 64, 80-84, 91-92. Weller, Barry and Margaret Ferguson. The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. 3-6, 28, 30.