Women Players in England, 1500–1660
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Author_Peter Parolin
Balet Comique De La Royne
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Catherine De Bourbon
Cavendish's Plays
Cavendish’s Plays
Commedia Erudita
Corpus Christi Cycle
Cortigiane Oneste
Cross-dressed Heroine
cross-dressing in drama
Early Modern Ballads
early modern theatre
English Renaissance drama
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Fair Annet
Female Homoeroticism
Female Mountebanks
female performers in early modern England
female stage history
French professional actresses
gender performance studies
Green Sickness
Henri III
Isabella Andreini
Italian Actresses
Italian woman player
La Calandria
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Clitherow
modern England
Moll Cut Purse
professional London stages
St Anne's Day
St Anne’s Day
Vice Versa
Vittoria Piisimi
William Cavendish
Willow Song
women in performance culture
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754665359
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural production, even on the professional London stages that used men and boys for women's parts. English spectators saw women players in professional and amateur contexts, in elite and popular settings, at home and abroad. Women acted in scripted and improvised roles, performed in local festive drama, and took part in dancing, singing, and masquing. English travelers saw professional actresses on the continent and Italian and French actresses visited England. Essays in this volume explore: the impact of women players outside London; the relationship between women's performance on the continent and in England; working women's participation in a performative culture of commerce; the importance of the visual record; the use of theatrical techniques by queens and aristocrats for political ends; and the role of female performance on the imitation of femininity. In short, Women Players in England 1500-1660 shows that women were dynamic cultural players in the early modern world.
Pamela Allen Brown is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Stamford, USA . Peter Parolin is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.
