Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1861–1913)]

The prefaces to Michael Field's early dramas, combined with their letters, illustrate how, as playwrights and thinkers, coauthors Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1861–1913) value a Dionysian passion that constitutes escape, autonomy, and release from repression and oppression. These texts also document the co-author's belief that archaisms in the style of Renaissance verse drama are best suited to portraying passionate historical tales and ideals, however anachronistically.