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A 3 page paper which examines Elizabeth Carey’s The Tragedy of Mariam: The Fair Queen of Jewry in relationship to themes and conditions for women today. No additional sources sited.
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play actually written by a woman, or so history states. Written at about the same time Shakespeare was writing his poems this play is what is called a closet poem
in that it was not really a play that was acted but more of a poem reciting a story to an audience. The following paper examines this play in relationship
to its themes and conditions which are compared to modern day womens positions. Women Renaissance Writers: The Tragedy of Mariam by Carey This particular play has often been
compared and contrasted with Shakespeares Othello in that it presents a powerful man and his wife, with the man ultimately killing her and being sorrowed at his haste in emotional
outcry. It is essentially a story that speaks of the conditions women have experienced at the hands of a patriarchal society that control all aspects of women, presumably because they
were owned by men in many respects. One example in this play comes when Mariam is telling her husband, Herod, that she may have been at fault in not
being as humble as she should have been but that she has always been chaste and pure. She tells him, "Had I but with humility been gracd,/ As well as
fair I might have provd me wise:/ But I did think because I knew me chaste,/ One virtue for a woman might suffice./ That mind for glory of our sex
might stand,/ wherein humility and chastity/ Doth march with equal paces hand in hand" (Carey IV: viii: 559-65). In this one sees that she is perhaps sorrowed that she has
not been humble, or perhaps she is referring to being quiet. But, she is sure of her chastity, her faithfulness to her husband, despite his assumption otherwise. She feels strong
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