A01=Clare McManus
Author_Clare McManus
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- ISBN 9780719062506
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 2002
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work reassesses women's relationship to performance in early modern England. It investigates the staging conditions, practices and gendering of Anna of Denmark's performances, bringing current critical theorisations of race, class, gender, space and performance to bear on the female courtly body in dance, staging, scenery, costume and make-up in the Jacobean court.
The study establishes a tradition of early seventeenth-century female performance which constitutes a trajectory for the emergence of the professional Restoration female actor. Anna of Denmark, wife of James VI of Scotland/James I, was a great patron of Ben Johnson, among others.
Clare McManus is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Theatre at the University of Roehampton
