Women, Medicine and Theatre 1500–1750
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-5084-3 (ISBN)
M.A. Katritzky is Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies in the Literature Department of The Open University, UK, and author of The Art of Commedia: A study in the commedia dell’arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records (2006).
Contents: Introduction: 'Mountebanks, monsters and several beasts': Margaret Cavendish at the Antwerp carnival fair. Part I Performing Medieval Quacks: Quack actresses of 1514; Literary mountebanks I: sex 'n shopping on the medieval religious stage; A quack picture: a key to the appearance of medieval staging? Part II Visual Aspects of Mountebank Activity: Friendship albums and other visual sources; Containers, stages and venues; The troupe; Performative aspects. Part III Marketing Medicine: Medical and commercial activity; Women as healers; Literary mountebanks II: stage quacks of Ben Jonson, Thomas Killigrew, Aphra Behn and Christian Weise; Quack couples: the male-female partnership. Part IV Gendering Tooth-Drawers: Tooth-drawers; Literary mountebanks III: Johann Kuhnau's female tooth-drawer, 1700; A French tooth-drawer: on the stage of Europe's first secular theatre? Part V Commedia dell'Arte Actresses: The inamorata; Comici and buffoni; Italian mixed-gender troupes: Thomas II Platter and Hippolytus Guarinonius; Female stage costume and cross-dressing. Part VI English Comedians in Shakespearean Europe: The Women: English actresses and the rise of the German professional stage; Pre-1650 women associated with the English comedians; The introduction of actresses in German-speaking Europe; Literary mountebanks IV: Johann Beer's flying quacks and mixed-gender 'English' troupe. Bibliography; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.9.2007 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 219 mm |
Gewicht | 635 g |
Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7546-5084-7 / 0754650847 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7546-5084-3 / 9780754650843 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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