Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance

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University of Illinois Press, 1995 - History - 279 pages

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Contents

Elizabethan Contexts
33
Elizabeths Watchful Eye and George Peeks Court Drama Female Power and the Lyric of Praise
85
Unhappy Dido Marlowes Lyric Strains
120
Shakespeares Laboring Lovers Lyric and Its Discontents
167
Legacy
214
Works Cited
251
Index
267
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