Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
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2023
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-2020-4 (ISBN)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-2020-4 (ISBN)
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.
Dr. Asuka Kimura received her PhD in English Language and Literature from UCL in 2016. She is an assistant professor at Chuo University, Japan.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Late Tudor and Stuart Drama |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 29 Illustrations, color; 7 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 546 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5015-2020-2 / 1501520202 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5015-2020-4 / 9781501520204 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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