Performing Women
Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz
Seiten
2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0640-7 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0640-7 (ISBN)
This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating new approaches to drama, gender and patronage, it offers an original paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture. -- .
This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female performer to centre stage. It integrates new approaches to drama, gender and patronage with a performance methodology to explore how the women of fifteenth-century Metz enacted varied kinds of performance that extended beyond the theatre. For example, decades before the 1468 play, Joan of Arc returned from the grave in the form of an impersonator named Claude. Offering a new paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture, Performing women is essential reading for scholars of pre-modern women and drama, and is also relevant to lecturers and students of late-medieval performance, religion and memory. -- .
This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female performer to centre stage. It integrates new approaches to drama, gender and patronage with a performance methodology to explore how the women of fifteenth-century Metz enacted varied kinds of performance that extended beyond the theatre. For example, decades before the 1468 play, Joan of Arc returned from the grave in the form of an impersonator named Claude. Offering a new paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture, Performing women is essential reading for scholars of pre-modern women and drama, and is also relevant to lecturers and students of late-medieval performance, religion and memory. -- .
Susannah Crowder is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY -- .
Family tree of Catherine Baudoche and Catherine Gronnaix
Introduction
1 Acting as Catherine: writing the history of female performers
2 ‘I, Catherine’: biography, documentary culture, and public presence
3 Performance and the parish: space, memory, and material devotion
4 Negotiated devotions and performed histories: laywomen in monastic spaces
5 ‘Call me Claude’: female actors, impersonation, and cultural transmission
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.12.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
Zusatzinfo | 3 Maps |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-0640-X / 152610640X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-0640-7 / 9781526106407 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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