Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark & Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590-1619

Clare McManus

ISBN 10: 0719062500 / ISBN 13: 9780719062506

Published by Manchester, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark & Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590-1619
• Publisher: Manchester
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719062500
• ISBN 13: 9780719062506
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used-Like New
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Synopsis

This work reassesses women's relationship to performance in early modern England. It investigates the staging conditions, practices and gendering of Anna of Denmark's performances, bringing current critical theorisations of race, class, gender, space and performance to bear on the female courtly body in dance, staging, scenery, costume and make-up in the Jacobean court.

The study establishes a tradition of early seventeenth-century female performance which constitutes a trajectory for the emergence of the professional Restoration female actor. Anna of Denmark, wife of James VI of Scotland/James I, was a great patron of Ben Johnson, among others.

About the Author

Clare McManus is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Theatre at the University of Roehampton