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Title:

Women players in England, 1500-1660 : beyond the all-male stage / edited by Pamela Allen Brown, Peter Parolin.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvii, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Theater--England--History--16th century.
Theater--England--History--17th century.
Actresses--England.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
Toneelspelers.
Vrouwen.
Engeland.

Other Authors:

Brown, Pamela Allen.
Parolin, Peter, 1966-

Notes:

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.

Series:

Studies in performance and early modern drama

ISBN:

9780754609537 (alk. paper)
0754609537 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004020756

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)