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Gender and Medieval Drama (Hardcover, New)
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Gender and Medieval Drama (Hardcover, New)
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
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An investigation of the public image of women as presented in
contemporary drama. The focus of this study is upon the Corpus
Christi plays, supplemented by other performance practices such as
festive and social entertainments, civic parades, funeral
processions and public punishments. The main argument relatesto the
traditional approaches to women's non-performance in the Corpus
Christi dramas, but other factors are considered and analysed,
including the semiotics of the cross-dressed actor and the
significance of the visual and spatial language of the processional
stage to gender debates. In conclusion, there is a series of
readings which reassess the dramatic portrayal of a selection of
holy and vulgar women - the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Mrs Noah
and Dame Procula. The emphasis throughout the book is upon a
performance-based analysis. Evidence from Records of Early English
Drama, social, literary and cultural sources are drawn together in
order to investigate how performances within the late Middle Ages
were both shaped by, and shaped, the public image of women. KATIE
NORMINGTON is Lecturer in Drama, Royal Holloway, London.
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