| Description |
xvii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in performance and early modern drama
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Studies in performance and early modern drama.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women and performance: evidences of universal cultural suffrage in medieval and early modern Lincolnshire / James Stokes -- Payments, permits and punishments: women performers and the politics of place / Gweno Williams, Alison Findlay, Stephanie Hodgson-Wright -- The case of Moll Frith: women's work and the "all-male stage" / Natasha Korda -- "Quacking Delilahs": female mountebanks in early modern England and Italy / Bella Mirabella -- Reading the actress in commedia imagery / M.A. Katritzky -- "Merry, nimble, stirring spirit[s]": academic, salon and commedia dell'arte influence on the innamorate in Love's labour's lost / Julie D. Campbell -- Women performing homoerotic desire in English and Italian comedy: La calandria, Gl'Ingannati and Twelfth night / Rachel Poulsen -- Courtly comédiantes: Henrietta Maria and amateur women's stage plays in France and England / Melinda J. Gough -- The Venetian theater of Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel / Peter Parolin -- "Pleaders, atturneys, petitioners and the like": Margaret Cavendish and the dramatic petition / Julie Crawford -- Staging the absent woman: the theatrical evocation of Elizabeth Tudor in Heywood's If you know not me, you know nobody, part I / Jean E. Howard -- Female impersonation in early modern ballads / Bruce R. Smith -- Jesting rights: women players in the manuscript jestbook of Sir Nicholas Le Strange / Pamela Allen Brown. |
| Subject |
Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Theater. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Actresses -- England.
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Actresses. |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Pamela Allen.
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Parolin, Peter, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0754609537 alkaline paper |
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