Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court 1590-1619

by Clare McManus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719062500
• ISBN13: 9780719062506
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 8.8"