Women players in England, 1500-1660 : beyond the all-male stage /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brown, Pamela Allen, Parolin, Peter, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
Series:Studies in performance and early modern drama.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.