{"id":2766,"date":"2025-05-27T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/?page_id=2766"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:32:31","slug":"the-concealed-fancies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/shakespeares-sisters\/jane-cavendish-and-elizabeth-brackley\/the-concealed-fancies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concealed Fancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written in 1644, <em><span class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"1\">The Concealed Fancies<\/span><\/em> can be read as a semi-autobiographical play written by Jane and Elizabeth during the rebel occupation of Welbeck Abbey.<!-- notionvc: d82595fe-afe8-4d14-b90c-29f6f7cfdd40 --><\/p>\n<p>In 1994, the play was performed at Bretton Hall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. Scroll to watch the full performance of this production.<\/p>\n<h2>Performance<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;vertical-align: top\">1. What parallels can you find between the play and the lives of the sisters?<\/p>\n<p>2. Can we consider <em>The Concealed Fancies<\/em> to be particularly radical in its portrayal of women and marriage?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;vertical-align: top\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/estream.lancaster.ac.uk\/Embed.aspx?id=90117&amp;code=ea~HVdsoZJslVsGjiMdgE6De3BVVvI7p9&amp;cc=1&amp;hm=1&amp;hs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" 0=\"allowfullscreen&gt;\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Exploring the Play<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;text-align: center\">\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhy then, a wife in show appear, though monkey I should dare; and so look upon the marriage day, I\u2019ll look as if to obey&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">This quote is spoken by Luceny in Scene VI.<\/p>\n<p>1. How does the play use performance to subvert ideas of wifely obedience?<\/p>\n<p>2. Can we see these attitudes towards marriage reflected in Cavendish and Brackley&#8217;s personal lives?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written in 1644, The Concealed Fancies can be read as a semi-autobiographical play written by Jane and Elizabeth during the rebel occupation of Welbeck Abbey. In 1994, the play was performed at Bretton Hall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. Scroll to watch the full performance of this production. Performance 1. What parallels can you find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"parent":2749,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"nosidebar-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2766","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7IR4b-IC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2766\/revisions\/3000"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}