1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465842803321

Autore

Williams Jean <1964, >

Titolo

A game for rough girls? : a history of women's football in Britain / / Jean Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-13621-1

0-203-37875-X

1-299-28752-2

1-135-13614-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

796.334082

Soggetti

Soccer for women - History

Women soccer players - History

Women soccer players - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. A game for rough girls? : women's football in Britain -- pt. II. The future is feminine.

Sommario/riassunto

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998 FIFA declared that ""the future is feminine"" and that football was the fastest growing sport for women globally.The result of several years of original research, the book traces the continuities in women's participation since the beginnings of the game, and highlights the significant moments that have influenced curr



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811485703321

Autore

Griffith Eva

Titolo

A Jacobean company and its playhouse : the Queen's Servants at The Red Bull Theatre, (c. 1605-1619) / / Eva Griffith [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-46182-0

1-139-89346-7

1-107-45963-X

1-107-47250-4

1-107-32353-3

1-107-46535-4

1-107-46890-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

725/.82209421

Soggetti

Theaters - England - London - History - 17th century

Theatrical companies - England - London - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Red Bull Theatre, St. John Street -- Elizabethan contexts for a Jacobean playhouse: Clerkenwell, East Anglia, The Strand and the liberty of the Clink (1586-1603) -- The Earl of Worcester, the Essex Circle, the Queen's servants and their playhouses (1589-1607) -- Who were the Queen's servants? What was The Red Bull like? -- The court and its women: Queen Anna, her circle, and some women-centred plays -- Entities and splinter groups: the Queen's servants' companies at the courts, in England and in Europe -- The company: 1605-1612 -- The company: 1612-1619 -- Conclusion: St. John's Day at night.

Sommario/riassunto

Eva Griffith's book fills a major gap concerning the world of Shakespearean drama. It tells the previously untold story of the Servants of Queen Anna of Denmark, a group of players parallel to Shakespeare's King's Men, and their London playhouse, The Red Bull. Built in vibrant Clerkenwell, The Red Bull lay within the northern suburbs of Jacobean London, with prostitution to the west and the



Revels Office to the east. Griffith sets the playhouse in the historical context of the Seckford and Bedingfeld families and their connections to the site. Utilising a wealth of primary evidence including maps, plans and archival texts, she analyses the court patronage of figures such as Sir Robert Sidney, Queen Anna's chamberlain, alongside the company's members, function and repertoire. Plays performed included those by Webster, Dekker and Heywood - entertainments characterised by spectacle, battle sequence and courtroom drama, alongside London humour and song.