Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 284 pages).
ISBN:
978-1-5015-1389-3
Series Statement:
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
Content:
The deaths of husbands radically changed women's lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
,
In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781501520204
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Frühneuenglisch
;
Drama
;
Witwe
;
Geschlechterrolle
DOI:
10.1515/9781501513893
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513893
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501513893
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513893
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501513893
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