Women on the Renaissance Stage

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Women on the Renaissance Stage is written by Clare McManus and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0719060923 (ISBN 10) and 9780719060922 (ISBN 13).

This work reassesses women's relationship to performance in early modern England. It investigates the staging conditions, practices and gendering of Anna of Denmark's performances, bringing current critical theorisations of race, class, gender, space and performance to bear on the female courtly body in dance, staging, scenery, costume and make-up in the Jacobean court. The study establishes a tradition of early seventeenth-century female performance which constitutes a trajectory for the emergence of the professional Restoration female actor. Anna of Denmark, wife of James VI of Scotland/James I, was a great patron of Ben Johnson, among others.