Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing

Lamenting that most anthologies for beginning students of the period must include the pillars of the canon, and so leave little room for women, and that anthologies of women writers tend to ghettoize them as not real literature, Tavitsky and Prescott have put together a reader that alerts students to gender as a significant category of thought and perception among both men and women in domestic affairs, religion, political life and social structures, and love and sexuality. Notes translate and clarify the language, and identify people and events. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)