The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: With the Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters - Paperbackby Elizabeth Cary (Author), Barry Weller (Editor), Margaret W. Ferguson (Editor) The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not merely how women were