Outspoken Women: An Extract from Lumley’s “Iphigenia”
In this article you will watch an extract from Lady Jane Lumley’s play performed by Rose Company Theatre, directed by Emma Rucastle. The play is set at the beginning of …
Course: Penshurst Place and the Sidney Family of Writers
Discover Lady Jane Lumley’s play “Iphigenia At Aulis”
Lady Jane Lumley was the first person to make an English translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy “Iphigenia at Aulis”. It is remarkable that a woman, rather than a man who …
Extract from ‘The Lady of May’
In this step we will examine an extract from “The Lady of May” by Sir Philip Sidney. Queen Elizabeth was ‘surprised’ by this entertainment which was staged as she was …
Sonnets by Philip and Robert Sidney: responses to a Petrarchan tradition
Use what you have learned so far about Petrarchan Sonnet tradition to read these two sonnets by Sir Philip Sidney and one by his brother Sir Robert Sidney. There are …
Three sonnets by Lady Mary Wroth
Read through these three sonnets from Wroth’s sequence “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus” to find out how what happens when a woman writes rather than being written about. (You can download pdf …
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