
Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
by Margaret Cavendish
Title:
Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
Edited by:
Bennett, Alexandra G.
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
230 pages
Publisher:
Broadview Press Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781551112879
EAN:
9781551112879
Publication Date:
18/02/2002
Classifications:
Plays, playscripts
Weight (g):
402
Dimensions (mm):
216 x 139 x 20
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions are scathing satires that speak to the role of women’s agency amidst this cultural tumult. In Bell in Campo, a group of virtuous women follow their husbands to war and, refusing to remain docilely out of harm’s way, form an army of their own. The Sociable Companions details the struggles of four women from impoverished Royalist families trying to survive in a rapacious marriage market at the war’s end.This Broadview Edition presents these two complementary plays together, along with supplementary materials on Cavendish’s life, the participation of women in the combat of the English Civil War, the conduct of the Royalist military forces, and seventeenth-century social and marriage conventions.

















