Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

<strong>Hrotsvit of Gandersheim</strong> (c 935 - c 975), a canoness of the Saxon Imperial Abbey of Gandersheim, is the first known woman dramatist. This select... » 

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c 935 - c 975), a canoness of the Saxon Imperial Abbey of Gandersheim, is the first known woman dramatist. This selection of her legends, dramas and epics, in English translation, is accompanied by an interpretive essay, a critical introduction and scholarly apparatus. «