The Tragedy of Mariam

The Tragedy of Mariam political legitimacy and maternal authority... 

The deconstructive and ultimately negative radicalism of such an argument can hardly be underestimated. The Tragedy of Mariam joins other... 

The salient instance of Cary s depiction of motherhood not as primarily deprived, villainous or abused but as fragile and incoherent is her representation of the conflict between Mariam and Doris, Herod s divorced wife, whose son, Antipater, has been disinherited. As many scholars have shown, The Tragedy of Mariam achieves its effects through an ambivalence that permeates its structure and divides audience sympathies for the characters. 3 The confrontation between Mariam and Doris is the best example in the play... 

See Elizabeth Cary, The Lady Falkland, The Tragedy of Mariam The Pair Queen of Jewry, ed. Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson (Berkeley, CA University of California Press, 1994), 17-2.3, 277-82.. All citations of the play are from this edition. 

Profane Stoical Paradoxes The Tragedie of Mariam and Sidneian Closet Drama , English Literary Renaissance 24 (1994), 104-34. 

For one recent example, see the valuable treatment of the play by Clarke, The Tragedy of Mariam . 

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