Lanyer, Aemilia (Vol. 30) - Ann Baynes Coiro (essay date 1993)
Ann Baynes Coiro (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Writing in Service: Sexual Politics and Class Position in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson," in Criticism, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 357-76.
[Below, Coiro discusses the significance gender and class in relation to a writer's decision to print his or her works during thte Renaissance. She then compares the Social Commentary in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum with that in Ben Jonson's The Forrest.]
The growing and increasingly central interest in writings by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women is beginning to have some material effects on the literary profession. In the fifth edition of the Norton Anthology (published in 1986), for example, a literature teacher could find a couple of poems by Lady Mary Wroth, one psalm by the Countess of Pembroke, and two poems by Queen Elizabeth. In the just-published sixth edition (1993), the number of texts by women has...
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