Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-172) and index
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Introduction : Elizabeth and the Jewish woman on stage -- The emerging female monarch in The Godly Queene Hester -- Maternal authority in The historie of Jacob and Esau -- The reader as voyeur : Thomas Garter's The virtuous and Godly Susanna and George Peele's The love of King David and fair Bethsabe -- Reading the sacrificed daughter in George Buchanan's Jephthes sive votum tragoedia -- "I'll sacrifice her on a pile of wood" : Abigail's roles in The Jew of Malta -- Her "flesh and blood"? : Jessica's mother in The merchant of Venice -- Epilogue : Jewish women, women writers, and Elizabeth's legacy
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism