Heroines of the Golden StAge
Subtitle: women and drama in Spain and England 1500-1700
By: edited by Rina Walthaus and Marguérite Corporaal
Series: Teatro del Siglo de Oro. Estudios de literatura -- 105; Teatro del Siglo de Oro -- 105.
Publisher: Edition Reichenberger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Kassel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783937734422
Subjects: Spanish drama; Congresses; History and criticism; English drama; Women in literature; Vrouwen; Toneelstukken; Gouden eeuw (begrip); Vrouwelijke auteurs; Toneelspelers
Notes: International conference proceedings, University of Groningen, March 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mujer esquiva or elusive woman : from Petrarchan conceptions to dramatic portrayals / María J. Pando Canteli; title: Gendered authority : Cleopatra in English and Spanish Golden Age drama / Helen Wilcox and Rina Walthaus; title: Beyond Shakespeare and Calderón : female subversion in the plays of Tirso, Webster and Middleton / José Manuel González Fernández de Sevilla; title: Women as actresses and theatre managers in early modern Pamplona / Maite Pascual Bonis; title: Nuns and actresses : the performance of dramatic works in the convent of the Trinitarias Descalzas of Madrid by Sister Francisca of Santa Teresa (1654-1709) / María del Carmen Alarcón Román; title: The good Lady Lumley's desire : Iphigeneia and the Nonsuch banqueting house / Marion Wynne-Davies; title: Women on the English courtly stage : Queen Henrietta María's dramatic activities / Barbara Ravelhofer; title: Emerging from the wings : women writing drama in seventeenth-century Spain / Rina Walthaus; title: From page to stage : readers, spectators, expectations and interpretations of María de Zaya's La traición en la amistad / Amy R. Williamsen; title: "To be in one self chest": women, language and genre in early modern English theater / Marguérite Corporaal; title: Theatres for early modern women's drama : from household to playhouse / Ailson Findlay.