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Labors lost : women's work and the early modern English stage / / Natasha Korda



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Autore: Korda Natasha Visualizza persona
Titolo: Labors lost : women's work and the early modern English stage / / Natasha Korda Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
Disciplina: 792.0820942
Soggetto topico: Women in the theater - England - History - 16th century
Women in the theater - England - History - 17th century
Women - Employment - England - History - 16th century
Women - Employment - England - History - 17th century
Theater - England - History - 16th century
Theater - England - History - 17th century
English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism
Theater and society - England - History - 16th century
Theater and society - England - History - 17th century
Soggetto non controllato: Gender Studies
Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Women's Studies
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Labors Lost -- Chapter 2. Dame Usury -- Chapter 3. Froes and Rebatos -- Chapter 4. Cries and Oysterwives -- Chapter 5. False Wares -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: Labors 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Labors lost  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89651-6
0-8122-0431-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808674803321
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