Women on the Renaissance stage

Anna of Denmark and female masquing in the Stuart court 1590–1619

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-05-02
Mått:138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719062506

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Mer om författaren

Clare McManus is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Theatre at the University of Roehampton

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: An early modern female stage1. Dance, gender and the politics of aristocratic performance in the early Stuart court masque2. Marriage and the performance of the romance quest – the role of the queen consort in the early modern European court 3. ‘Spectacles of strangeness’ – the performance of the female body in the major Jacobean masques4. Disputed marriages – the female courtier as spectator 5. The contested masquing stage – ‘The Somerset masque’, ‘Cupid's banishment’ and the space of the female courtConclusion: The legacy of Anna of Denmark – female performance in the Caroline court and beyondNotesBibliographyIndex