Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
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Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage

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Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage by Asuka Kimura in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Literary Criticism in Drama. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781501520204
eBook ISBN
9781501513954
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Drama
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. A Note on the Text
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 Widows’ Costumes and Accessories on the Early Modern Stage
  9. Chapter 2 Lamentation and Gestures of Mourning in Tamburlaine the Great, Richard III, and King John
  10. Chapter 3 Staging the Dead Husband in Elizabethan Tragedies and Jacobean Satirical Comedies
  11. Chapter 4 Actors and Casting in The Duchess of Malfi and More Dissemblers Besides Women
  12. Chapter 5 “Shall I not be master of my own house?”: Widows as Powerful Mistresses in Caroline Drama
  13. Conclusion
  14. Appendix: List of Plays with Widow Characters, 1538 – 1642
  15. Index