Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry

Alternative title(s): Mariamne | The Tragedy of the Fair Mariam, Queen of Jewry
Author(s): Cary, Elizabeth
Date of composition:
  • 1605 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 235)
  • 1602 -1609 (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 235)
Date of first performance: 1602 - 1605
Date of first publication: 1613
Genre (Annals): Tragedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1481 (Vol. 5)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1613 quarto transcript
  • 1613 quarto Creede, Thomas Hawkins, Richard Printed title: THE TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, THE FAIRE Queene of Iewry. single-play print
      ESTC: S107482 4613 : 586 308a
      EEBO-TCP: A17956 - Huntington Library - EEBO record TCP HTML XML HTML
      Observations: Facsimiles: Dunstan, A.C., ed. The Tragedy of Mariam, by Lady E[lizabeth] C[ary]. From the edition 1613. Oxford: Malone Society, 1914. Malone Society Reprints 42.
      Straznicky, M.; Rowland, R., ed. The Tragedy of Mariam. Reprinted with a new supplement to the introduction. Oxford: Malone Society, 1991. Malone Society Reprints 42A.

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Early Performances

Modern Productions

  • Tinder Box Theatre Company. Dir. Hodgson-Wright. Bradford Alhambra Studio. 1994.
  • Schafer, Liz, dir. Royal Holloway, University of London. 1995.
  • English Alternative Theater. Dir. Paul Stephen Lim. [Stage reading]. 1966.
  • Primavera. [Stage reading]. King’s Head Theatre, Islington, London. 2007.
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Washington Shakespeare Company. [Staged reading]. Washington, DC. 4 May 2009.

Modern editions

  • Wray, Ramona, ed. The Tragedy of Mariam. Cary, Elizabeth. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. Arden Early Modern Drama.
  • Britland, Karen, ed. The Tragedy of Mariam. Cary, Elizabeth. London: Methuen Drama A & C Black, 2010. New Mermaids.
  • Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Eisaman Maus, Katharine; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
  • Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie, ed. The Tragedy of Mariam. Cary, Elizabeth. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2000. Broadview Literary Texts.
  • Purkiss, Diane, ed. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1998. Renaissance Dramatists. Mariam, pp. 97-166..
  • Wright, Stephanie J., ed. The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of the Jewry. Cary, Elizabeth. Keele: Keele University Press, 1996. Renaissance Texts and Studies.
  • Cerasano, S. P.; Wynne-Davies, Marion, ed. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents. London: Routledge, 1996. Mariam, pp. 43-75..
  • Weller, Barry; Margaret Ferguson, ed. The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of the Jewry. Cary, Elizabeth. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Purkiss, Diane, ed. Renaissance Women. London: Pickering, 1994. Renaissance Dramatists.

Select Bibliography: Criticism

  • Schafer, Elizabeth. "Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary: Worldmaking in 'The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry". Ed. Clark, Tom; Finlay, Emily; Kelly, Philippa. Worldmaking: Literature, Language, Culture. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2017, p. 41-54.
  • Dowd, Michelle M. "Dramaturgy and the politics of space in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Renaissance Drama. 2016, vol. 1, 44, p. 101-22.
  • Wray, Ramona. "Editing the feminist agenda: the power of the textual critic and Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Ross, Sarah C. E.; Salzman, Paul. Editing Early Modern women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 60-76.
  • McCutcheon, Rebecca. "A performance studies approach to 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Early Theatre. 2015, vol. 2, 18, p. 187-201.
  • Wray, Ramona. "Performing 'The Tragedy of Mariam' and constructing stage history". Early Theatre. 2015, vol. 2, 18, p. 149-66.
  • Abdul-Jabbar, Wisam Kh. "Teaching 'The Tragedy of Mariam' to High School Students and Beyond". This Rough Magic: A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. 2014, , p. 58-70.
  • Nesler, Miranda Garno. "Closeted authority in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 2012, vol. 2, 52, p. 363-85.
  • Roth, Jenny. "'She, Was Now Disgraced': Doris and the Critique of Law in Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedie of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry'". Women's Writing. 2012, vol. 4, 19, p. 487-506.
  • Lehnhof, Kent R. "Acting Virtuous: Chastity, Theatricality, and 'The Tragedie of Mariam'". Ed. Moncrief, Kathryn M; McPherson, Kathryn R. Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, p. 217-232.
  • Gutierrez, Nancy A. "Valuing Mariam: Genre Study and Feminist Analysis". Ed. Raber, Karen. Elizabeth Cary. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, p. 101-119.
  • Green, Reina. "'Ears Prejudicate' in Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi". Ed. Raber, Karen. Elizabeth Cary. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, p. 461-476.
  • Gruber, Elizabeth. "Insurgent Flesh: Epistemology and Violence in Othello and Mariam". Ed. Raber, Karen. Elizabeth Cary. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, p. 477-494.
  • Callaghan, Dympna. "Re-Reading Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry'". Ed. Raber, Karen. Elizabeth Cary. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, p. 173-193.
  • Ferguson, Margaret W. ""Allegories of Imperial Subjection: Literacy as Equivocation in Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Raber, Karen. Elizabeth Cary. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, p. 225-301.
  • Shannon, Laurie J. "'The Tragedy of Mariam': Cary's Critique of the Terms of Founding Social Discourses". Ed. Raber, Karen. Elizabeth Cary. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Ashgate, 2009, p. 349-367.
  • Bennett, Alexandra G. "Female Performativity in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Schoenberg, Thomas J.; Trudeau, Lawrence J. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Volume 141. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2008, p. 84-92.
  • Miller, Naomi J. "Domestic Politics in Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Schoenberg, Thomas J.; Trudeau, Lawrence J. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Volume 141. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2008, p. 2-10.
  • León Alfar, Cristina. "Elizabeth Cary's female trinity: breaking custom with Mosaic law in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Early Modern Women. 2008, 3, p. 61-103.
  • Hiscock, Andrew. "The Hateful Cuckoo: Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedie of Mariam', a Renaissance Drama of Dispossession". Ed. Schoenberg, Thomas J.; Trudeau, Lawrence J.. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Volume 141. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2008, p. 27-37.
  • Kegl, Rosemary. "Theatres, Households, and a 'Kind of History' in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam". Ed. Schoenberg, Thomas J.; Trudeau, Lawrence J.. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Volume 141. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2008, p. 48-57.
  • Clarke, Danielle. "'This Domestic Kingdome or Monarchy': Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam and the Resistance to Patriarchal Government". Ed. Schoenberg, Thomas J.; Trudeau, Lawrence J.. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Volume 141. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2008, p. 37-48.
  • Oh, Elisa. "Refusing to speak: silent, chaste, and disobedient female characters in King Lear and 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Explorations in Renaissance Culture. 2008, vol. 2, 34, p. 185-216.
  • Kelly, Erin E. "Mariam and Early Modern Discourses of Martyrdom". Ed. Wolfe, Heather. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, p. 35-52.
  • Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie. "Not kissing the (He)rod: Marian moments in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Buccola, Regina; Hopkins, Lisa. Marian moments in early modern British drama. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, p. 161-73.
  • Bell, Ilona. "Private Lyrics in Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Wolfe, Heather. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, p. 17-34.
  • Shell, Alison. "Elizabeth Cary's Historical Conscience: 'The Tragedy of Mariam' and Thomas Lodge's 'Josephus'". Ed. Wolfe, Heather. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, p. 53-67.
  • Clarke, Danielle. "The Tragedy of Mariam' and the politics of marriage". Ed. Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr; Cheney, Patrick; Hadfield, Andrew. Early modern English drama: a critical companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 248-59.
  • Mejia-LaPerle, Carol. "Access and agency in Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam': early modern closet drama and the spatialization of power". Literature Compass. 2006, vol. 2, 3, p. 80-94.
  • Connors, Louisa. "An Unregulated Woman: A Computational Stylistic Analysis of Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam, The Faire Queene of Jewry'". Literary and Linguistic Computing: Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and The Association for Computers and the Humanities. 2006, 21, p. 55-66.
  • Cuder-Domínguez, Pila. ""Female Monstrosity, Besieged Masculinity, and the Bounds of Race in Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam' (1613)". Grove: Working Papers on English Studies. 2006, 13, p. 57-71.
  • Poitevin, Kimberly Woosley. "Counterfeit colour': making up race in Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 2005, vol. 1, 24, p. 13-34.
  • Ostman, Heather E. "Backbiters, flatterers, and monarchs: domestic politics in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Bruce, Yvonne. Images of matter: essays on British literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: proceedings of the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, South Carolina. Newark: U of Delaware P--Associated UP, 2005, p. 183-205.
  • Roberts, Jeanne Addison. "Revenge tragedy and Elizabeth Cary's 'Mariam'". Renaissance Papers (Southeastern Renaissance Conference). 2003, , p. 149-66.
  • Green, Reina. "'Ears Prejudicate' in 'Mariam' and 'Duchess of Malfi'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2003, vol. 2, 43, p. 459-74.
  • Gruber, Elizabeth. "Insurgent flesh: epistemology and violence in 'Othello' and 'Mariam'". Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 2003, vol. 4, 32, p. 393-410.
  • Calderón López, María Isabel. "Elizabeth Cary's Life and Work Rediscovered: Scepticism and Epistemology in 'The Lady Falkland: Her Life' and 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. 2002, vol. 3, 64, p. 913.
  • Maguire, Laurie. "Teaching Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam' through Performance". Ed. Bamford, Karen;, Leggatt, Alexander. Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002, p. 95-98.
  • Beilin, Elaine. "Elizabeth Cary, 'The Tragedy of Mariam', and History". Ed. Pacheco, Anita. A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, p. 136-49.
  • Luckyj, Christina. "Historicizing Gender: Mapping Cultural Space in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam". Ed. Bamford, Karen; Leggatt, Alexander. Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002, p. 134-41.
  • Bennett, Lyn. "'Written on my tainted brow': woman and the exegetical tradition in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Christianity and Literature. 2001, vol. 1, 51, p. 5-28.
  • Bennett, Alexandra G. "Female performativity in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 2000, vol. 2, 40, p. 293-309.
  • Purkiss, Diane. "Blood, sacrifice, marriage: why Iphigeneia and Mariam have to die". Women's Writing. 1999, vol. 1, 6, p. 27-45.
  • Kegl, Rosemary. "Theaters, Households, and a 'Kind of History' in Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Ed. Comensoli, Viviana; Russell, Anne. Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 1999, p. 135-53.
  • Clarke, Danielle. "'This domestic kingdome or monarchy': Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam' and the resistance to patriarchal government". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 1998, 10, p. 179-200.
  • Kusunoki, Akiko. "Representations of female subjectivity in Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam' and Mary Wroth's 'Love's Victory'". Ed. Kawachi, Yoshiko. Japanese studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Newark: Delaware UP, 1998, p. 141-65.
  • Skura, Meredith. "The Reproduction of Mothering in Mariam, Queen of Jewry: A Defense of 'Biographical' Criticism". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 1997, vol. 1, 16, p. 27-56.
  • Miller, Naomi J. "Domestic politics in Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1997, vol. 2, 37, p. 353-69.
  • Skura, Meredith. "The reproduction of mothering in Mariam, Queen of Jewry: a defense of 'biographical' criticism". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 1997, vol. 1, 16, p. 27-56.
  • Kemp, Theresa D. "The Family Is a Little Commonwealth: Teaching 'Mariam' and 'Othello' in a Special-Topics Course on Domestic England". Shakespeare Quarterly. 1996, vol. 4, 47, p. 451-60.
  • Berry, Boyd M. "Feminine construction of patriarchy; or, What's comic in 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 1995, 7, p. 257-74.
  • Glew, Dorothy Fitzgerald. Elizabeth Cary and 'The Tragedy of Mariam': a study of submission and subversion. {Falta nombre Universidad}, 1995.
  • Straznicky, Marta. "'Profane Stoical Paradoxes': 'The Tragedie of Mariam' and Sidneian Closet Drama". English Literary Renaissance. 1994, vol. 1, 24, p. 104-34.
  • Shannon, Laurie J. "The Tragedie of Mariam: Cary's critique of the terms of founding social discourses". English Literary Renaissance. 1994, vol. 1, 24, p. 135-53.
  • Callaghan, Dympna. "Re-Reading Elizabeth Cary's 'The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry'". Ed. Hendricks, Margo; Parker, Patricia. Women, 'Race,' and Writing in the Early Modern Period. London: Routledge, 1994, p. 163-77.
  • Ferguson, Margaret W. "The Spectre of Resistance: 'The Tragedy of Mariam' (1613)". Ed. Kastan, David Scott; Stallybrass, Peter. Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. New York: Routledge, 1991, p. 235-50.
  • Travitsky, Betty S. "The Feme Covert in Elizabeth Cary's Mariam". Ed. Levin, Carole; Watson, Jeanie. Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1987, p. 184-196.
  • Holdsworth, R. V. "Middleton and 'The Tragedy of Mariam'". Notes and Queries. 1986, vol. 3, 33, p. 379-80.
  • Beilin, Elaine. "Elizabeth Cary and 'The Tragedie of Mariam'". Papers on Language & Literature. 1980, 16, p. 45-64.

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