LEADER 04566nam 2200877 a 450 001 9910788578603321 005 20211004235958.0 010 $a1-283-89651-6 010 $a0-8122-0431-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204315 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064687 035 $a(OCoLC)823825420 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631075 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631075 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10590717 035 $a(PQKB)11210528 035 $a(OCoLC)794700692 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17920 035 $a(DE-B1597)449469 035 $a(OCoLC)979753968 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204315 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441712 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641547 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420901 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441712 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064687 100 $a20110317d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLabors lost$b[electronic resource] $ewomen's work and the early modern English stage /$fNatasha Korda 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4344-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrologue --$tChapter 1. Labors Lost --$tChapter 2. Dame Usury --$tChapter 3. Froes and Rebatos --$tChapter 4. Cries and Oysterwives --$tChapter 5. False Wares --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aLabors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wives, daughters, and widows of theater people who worked actively alongside their male kin; and immigrant women who fueled the fashion-driven stage with a range of newfangled skills and commodities. Combining archival research on these and other women who worked in and around the playhouses with revisionist readings of canonical and lesser-known plays, Labors Lost retrieves this lost history by detailing the diverse ways women participated in the work of playing, and the ways male players and playwrights in turn helped to shape the cultural meanings of women's work. Far from a marginal phenomenon, the gendered division of theatrical labor was crucial to the rise of the commercial theaters in London and had an influence on the material culture of the stage and the dramatic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. 606 $aWomen in the theater$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aWomen in the theater$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aWomen$xEmployment$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aWomen$xEmployment$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheater and society$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aTheater and society$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aWomen in the theater$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in the theater$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xEmployment$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xEmployment$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory 676 $a792.0820942 700 $aKorda$b Natasha$01477537 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788578603321 996 $aLabors lost$93751921 997 $aUNINA