"Unlike those of her male precursors and contemporaries, Bradstreet's voicing of the humility topos discloses the dilemma of female poetic subjectivity: finding a voice in a tradition that denies women voices" is one possible explanation for what seems to be opposed underlying messages in "Prologue" (Scheitzer 293). ... The strong Puritan views that were hostile to theatre controlled most of society and caused a great deal of resistance to Murray's attempt at using the theatre as a feminist vehicle. ...

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