Elizabeth Carey
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
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Elizabeth Cary an important literary figure worthy of study in the 21st century.
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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.
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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.
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