Women on the Renaissance stage
Subtitle: Anna of Denmark and female masquing in the Stuart court (1590-1619)
By: Clare McManus.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Anne, Queen, consort of James I, King of England, 1574-1619; Masques -- History and criticism; Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 16th century; Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century
Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of figures page vi; title: Acknowledgements ix; title: Select table of court masques (1604-19) xi; title: Introduction. An early modern female stage 1; title: 1 Dance, gender and the politics of aristocratic performance in the early Stuart court masque 18; title: 2 Marriage and the performance of the romance quest: the role of the queen consort in the early modern European court 60; title: 3 'Spectacles of strangeness': the performance of the female body in the major Jacobean masques 97; title: 4 Disputed marriages: the female courtier as spectator 136; title: 5 The contested masquing stage: The Somerset Masque, Cupid's Banishment and the space of the female court 164; title: Conclusion. The legacy of Anna of Denmark: female performance in the Caroline court and beyond 202; title: Notes 214; title: Bibliography 241; title: Index 268.