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Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Performance and Pedagogy (Hardcover)
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Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Performance and Pedagogy (Hardcover)
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Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and
early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress
begin with the Restoration, this book demonstrates that the girl is
actually a well-documented category of performer and a key
participant in the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It
explores evidence of the girl actor in archival records of payment,
eyewitness accounts, stage directions, paintings, and in the plays
and masques that were explicitly composed for girls, and, in some
cases, by them. Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about
the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals
girls’ participation in medieval religious drama, Tudor civic
pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house
entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques. This book
situates its historical study of the girl actor within the wider
contexts of 'girl culture', including girls as singers, translators
and authors. By examining the impact of the girl actor on
constructions of girlhood in the work of Shakespeare – whose girl
characters register and evoke the power of the performing girl –
Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance argues that
girls’ dramatic, musical and literary performances actively
shaped medieval and early modern culture. It shows how the active
presence and participation of girls shaped medieval and Renaissance
culture, and it reveals how some of its best-known literary and
dramatic texts address, represent, and reflect upon girl children,
not as an imagined ideal, but as a lived reality.
General
Imprint: |
The Arden Shakespeare
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Deanne Williams
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-34320-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
1-350-34320-X |
Barcode: |
9781350343207 |
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