TY - BOOK AU - Cary,Elizabeth AU - Weller,Barry AU - Ferguson,Margaret W. TI - The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry SN - 0520079671 (alk. paper) AV - PR2499.F3 T7 1993 U1 - 822/.3 20 PY - 1994/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Mariamne, KW - Herod KW - Cary, Elizabeth, KW - Dramatists, English KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Biography KW - Women and literature KW - England KW - History KW - 17th century KW - English drama N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-328); Elizabeth Cary's Life and Works; Subtexts and Contents for Mariam; Josephus and Jewish Materials; Biblical and Historical Herods; Mystery Play Herods; Continental and Classicizing Dramas about Herod and Mariam; English "Closet" Dramas; The "Social Text" of Henry VIII's Divorce; Cary's Mariam; The Chorus and Conventional Wisdom; Structure and Characterization; Mariam and Shakespeare; The Texts of Mariam and the Life; The 1613 Quarto of Mariam; The Manuscript of The Lady of Falkland: Her Life --; Pt. 1; The Tragedy of Mariam; Historical Background to the Events in the Play; The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry; Elizabeth Cary --; Pt. 2; The Lady Falkland; Chronology of Elizabeth Cary's Life and Works; The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters; Appendix A: Passages from Lodge's Translation of Josephus (1602) --; Appendix B: Textual Collation for Mariam ER -