"Labors Lost" offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of
working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged
contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time.
Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional
stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women
of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who
supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and
widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wives,
daughters, and widows of theater people who worked actively
alongside their male kin; and immigrant women who fueled the
fashion-driven stage with a range of newfangled skills and
commodities.Combining archival research on these and other women
who worked in and around the playhouses with revisionist readings
of canonical and lesser-known plays, "Labors Lost" retrieves this
lost history by detailing the diverse ways women participated in
the work of playing, and the ways male players and playwrights in
turn helped to shape the cultural meanings of women's work. Far
from a marginal phenomenon, the gendered division of theatrical
labor was crucial to the rise of the commercial theaters in London
and had an influence on the material culture of the stage and the
dramatic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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