Cary, Elizabeth Tanfield, Viscountess Falkland

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Biography

Fullerton, Georgianna Charlotte. Life of Elizabeth, Lady Falkland 1585-1639. London: Burns and Oates, 1883.

Extensive biography of Cary that reprints several of her letters and other pertinent documents.

Murdock, Kenneth. The Sun at Noon: Three Biographical Sketches. New York: Macmillan, 1939, 327 p.

The most complete and widely read twentieth-century portrayal of Elizabeth Cary. The book also contains biographies of Lucius Cary and John Wilmot.

Simpson, Richard, ed. The Lady Falkland, Her Life from a ms. in the Imperial Archives at Lisle. London: Catholic Publishing and Bookselling Co., 1861.

The first full-length study of Elizabeth Cary's life, probably written from 1643 to 1649 by one of her daughters.

Criticism

Beilin, Elaine V. "The Making of a Female Hero: Joanna Lumley and Elizabeth Cary." In Redeeming Eve: Women Writers in the English Renaissance, pp. 151-176. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Focuses on autobiographical elements of Cary's The Tragedie of Mariam, drawing extensively on the biography The Lady Falkland, Her Life.

Brashear, Lucy. "A Case for the Influence of Lady Cary's Tragedy of Mariam on Shakespeare's Othello." 26 (1976): 31.

Short argument contending that Cary influenced Shakespeare's Othello.

Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry. Edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, 328 p.

Standard modern edition of Cary's Tragedy, including a thorough critical introduction, the full text of the play, a reprint of The Lady Falkland, Her Life, and an extensive bibliography.

Ferguson, Margaret W. "A Room Not Their Own." In The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice, pp. 93-116. Edited by Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Uses Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames and Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedie of Mariam to illustrate that Renaissance literature written by women generally tries to justify women's self-expression without problematizing prevailing views of female chastity.

Gutierrez, Nancy A. "Valuing Mariam: Genre Study and Feminist Analysis." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 10, No. 2 (Fall 1991): 233-51.

Explores the role of feminist literary criticism in the evaluation and interpretation of Mariam, concluding that the play is "a highly sophisticated literary exercise demonstrating Cary's participation in contemporary literary dialogue as well as her interest in issues of sexual politics."

Raber, Karen L. "Gender and the Political Subject in The Tragedy of Mariam." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 35, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 321-343.

Insists that, in Mariam, Cary criticizes political and domestic patriarchy, which thwarts women's participation in public discourse.

Travitsky, Betty S. "The Femme Covert in Elizabeth Cary's Mariam." In Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, pp. 184-96. Edited by Carole Levin and Jeanie Watson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

Argues that Cary's Mariam comments on the subordination of women in Renaissance-era marriages.

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