Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage / / Asuka Kimura.
The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVI, 284 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on the Text
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Widows’ Costumes and Accessories on the Early Modern Stage
- Chapter 2 Lamentation and Gestures of Mourning in Tamburlaine the Great, Richard III, and King John
- Chapter 3 Staging the Dead Husband in Elizabethan Tragedies and Jacobean Satirical Comedies
- Chapter 4 Actors and Casting in The Duchess of Malfi and More Dissemblers Besides Women
- Chapter 5 “Shall I not be master of my own house?”: Widows as Powerful Mistresses in Caroline Drama
- Conclusion
- Appendix: List of Plays with Widow Characters, 1538–1642
- Bibliography
- Index