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Article: Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature.(Book Review)
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Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature. By Mary Beth Rose. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ix-xxii + 139 pages.
In her elegant study of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature, Mary Beth Rose offers a fascinating assessment of the changing paradigms of heroism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English texts. Her book brings together a rich mix of well- and lesser-known works written by men and women: plays by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe; Elizabeth I's public speeches; autobiographies of four Royalist women whose lives were radically altered by the English Civil Wars; and, finally, John ...
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