CAVENDISH AND SHAKESPEARE, INTERCONNECTIONS Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections Edited by KATHERINE ROMACK University of West Florida, USA JAMES FITZMAURICE Northern Arizona University, USA, and University of Sheffield, UK I~ ~~o~~~;n~~:up LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint oft he Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright© 2006 Katherine Romack and James Fitzmaurice Katherine Romack and James Fitzmaurice have asserted their moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. All rights reserved. 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Fitzmaurice, James, 1943- PR3605.N2Z64 2006 828'.409-dc22 2005017383 ISBN 9780754654537 (hbk) Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections Katherine Romack and James Fitzmaurice "Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe": Affiliation and Memorialization in Margaret Cavendish's Playes and Plays, Never before Printed 7 Shannon Miller 2 Shakespeare, Cavendish, and Reading Aloud in Seventeenth-Century England 29 James Fitzmaurice 3 Drama's Olio: A New Way to Serve Old Ingredients in The Religious and The Matrimonial Trouble 47 Erna Kelly 4 Dining at the Table of Sense: Shakespeare, Cavendish, and The Convent of Pleasure 63 Brandie R. Siegfried 5 Testifying in the Court of Public Opinion: Margaret Cavendish Reworks The Winter's Tale 85 Alexandra G. Bennett 6 Gender, the Political Subject, and Dramatic Authorship: Margaret Cavendish's Loves Adventures and the Shakespearean Example 103 Mihoko Suzuki 7 Old Playwrights, Old Soldiers, New Martial Subjects: The Caven dishes and the Drama of Soldiery 121 Vimala C. Pasupathi vi Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections 8 Enlarging Margaret: Cavendish, Shakespeare, and French Women Warriors and Writers 147 Amy Scott-Douglass 9 The Unnatural Tragedy and Familial Absolutisms 179 Karen Raber 10 "I wonder she should be so Infamous for a Whore?": Cleopatra Restored 193 Katherine Romack Index 213 List of Figures 1.1 Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (Third Folio, 1664). Title Page. 13" x 8 Ys ." The Folger Shakespeare Library. 24 1.2 Martin Droeshout. Portrait of William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (Third Folio, 1664). Title Page. 13" x 8 Ys ." The Folger Shakespeare Library. 25 1.3 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (First Folio,1623). Title Page. 26" x 16 %. " The Folger Shakespeare Library. 26 1.4 Margaret Cavendish. Plays, Never before Printed (1668). Title Page. 12" x 7." The Folger Shakespeare Library. 27 1.5 Abraham van Diepenbeke. Portrait of Margaret Cavendish. Plays, Never before Printed (1668). Frontispiece. 12" x 7." The Henry E. Huntington Library. 28 8.1 Jean Baptiste-Masse [after Peter Paul Rubens]. Marie de Medici (1708). Engraving. 57 x 36 em. The Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri at Columbia. Gift of Donald S. Dawson in memory of his wife Ilona Massey Dawson. 173 8.2 Abraham van Diepenbeke. [Engraved by Peter van Schuppen]. Portrait of Margaret Cavendish. Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655). Frontispiece. 12" x 7." The Henry E. Huntington Library. 174 8.3 Nicolaas Visscher the elder [in collaboration with Comelis Danckerts the elder], The Battle of the Amazons [after Rubens] (c. 1638-1656). 842 x 1175 mm. Antwerp, Rubenshouse. The Fotodienst. 175 8.4 Grinling Gibbons, The Cavendishes' effigies at Westminster Abbey. Marble, Westminster Abbey. Copyright: Dean and Chapter of Westminster. 176 8.5 Detail of Margaret Cavendish's effigy, Westminster Abbey. Copyright: Dean and Chapter of Westminster. 177 8.6 Side panel of Margaret Cavendish's sarcophagus, Westminster Abbey. Copyright: Dean and Chapter of Westminster. 178 Notes on Contributors Alexandra G. Bennett teaches Renaissance literature and drama at Northern lllinois University, where she is an Assistant Professor of English. She has edited two plays by Margaret Cavendish for Broadview Press (Bell in Campo and the Sociable Companions, 2002), and has published work on Cavendish, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, and others in various journals and collections. She is currently working on a book-length study of female dramatists of the English Renaissance and their contexts, and is preparing the first printed edition of Elizabeth Polwhele's The Faithful Virgins (c.l675). James Fitzmaurice holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Occidental College, an MA in English from California State University, Long Beach, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. Currently he is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University and Director of Distance Education for the School of English at the University of Sheffield (UK). He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and a senior visiting research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. He has taught on faculty exchange at the University of Tuebingen in Germany and at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. He has published articles on the following writers from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Aphra Behn, Thomas Carew, Margaret Cavendish, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Osborne, William, Duke of Newcastle, and Jane Barker. He was general editor for Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England and has edited Margaret Cavendish: The Sociable Letters as well as Newcastle's The Humorous Lovers. Erna Kelly, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, teaches seventeenth-century literature, Shakespeare, and women's literature. Her most recent publication is on Margaret Cavendish's drama, "Playing with Religion" in EMLS (May 2004). Other publications include essays on women's autobiography, "Portraits: Self and Other" in Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers (200 1) and "Diaries and Journals" in Reader's Guide to Women's Studies (1998); women's poetry, "Women's Wit" in Seventeenth-Century Wit (1995) and cavalier poets, "'Small Type of Great Ones': Richard Lovelace's Separate Peace" in The English Civil Wars and the Literary Imagination (1999). Notes on Contributors ix Shannon Miller is an Associate Professor at Temple University. She is the author of Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), and of articles on seventeenth-century women writers including Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, and Lucy Hutchinson. Her current project, entitled "Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers," places women writers such as Lanyer, Cavendish, Hutchinson, and Aphra Behn in conversation with Milton's Paradise Lost. Vimala C. Pasupathi is finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. Her doctoral research focuses on the representation of soldiers and British nationalism in English Drama, 1590-1660. Karen Raber is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (University of Delaware Press, 200 I), coeditor with Ivo Kamps of Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004), and coeditor with Treva J. Tucker of The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline and Identity in the Early Modern World (Palgrave, 2004). Katherine Romack is an Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida where she teaches in the Department of English and Foreign Languages. She is currently at work on a book entitled Gender, Politics and Play on the Interregnum Stage. Her essays on seventeenth-century women include "Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: The Strange and Wonderful Travail of 'Mistris Parliament' and "Mris. Rump"' in Debating Gender (Palgrave, 2001) and "Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic" in A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare (Blackwell, 2000). Amy Scott-Douglass is an Assistant Professor of English at Denison University. She has published articles on Tudor and Stuart drama, Shakespeare in performance, and early modern women writers. She is currently finishing a monograph on paratextual materials to literature by seventeenth-century women. Her other book, dealing with Shakespeare prison, military, and work-study programs in the United States, will be published by Continuum Press in 2006. Brandie R. Siegfried is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Brigham Young University. She has published in various journals, including Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Yearbook, Sixteenth Century Studies, Reading Early Modern Women, George Herbert Journal, Literature and Belief and the Annual of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature. She is currently polishing her first book, The Women's Line: Literary Conquest in the Wake of Elizabeth Tudor, 1603-1700, and is in the early stages of her second book project, The Literary History ofG race 0 'Malley, 1550-2005.