Vol 15, No 1 (2012)

Special Issue: Access and Contestation: Women’s Performance in Early Modern
England, Italy, France, and Spain

Table of Contents

Front Matter

Front Cover
Author not applicable
Front Matter
Author not applicable 1-6
Contents
Author not applicable 7-8
Editorial
Helen Ostovich, Erin E. Kelly 9-10
Contributors
Author not applicable 11-14

Articles

Introduction: Access and Contestation: Women’s Performance in Early Modern England, Italy, France, and Spain
Peter Parolin 15-26
Women and Performance in Medieval and Early Modern Suffolk
James Stokes 27-44
‘If I had begun to dance’: Women’s Performance in Kemps Nine Daies Wonder
Peter Parolin 45-64
‘In the sight of all’: Queen Elizabeth and the Dance of Diplomacy
Bella Mirabella 65-90
Between Courts: Female Masquers and Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy, 1603–5
Mark Hutchings, Berta Cano-Echevarría 91-108
Marie de Medici’s 1605 ballet de la reine: New Evidence and Analysis
Melinda J. Gough 109-144
‘Cattle of this colour’: Boying the Diva in As You Like It
Pamela Allen Brown 145-166
The Spanish Actress’s Art: Improvisation, Transvestism, and Disruption in Tirso’s El vergonzoso en palacio
Amy L. Tigner 167-190
Conniving Women and Superannuated Coquettes: Travestis and Caractères in the Early Modern French Theatre
Virginia Scott 191-214

Book Reviews

Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations
Melissa Croteau (book editor), Carolyn Jess-Cooke (book editor), Catherine Silverstone (review author) 215-217
Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage
Jane Hwang Degenhardt (book editor), Elizabeth Williamson (book editor), Erin E. Kelly (review author) 217-221
How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
Eugene Giddens (book author), Brett D. Hirsch (review author) 222-224
Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools
Max Harris (book author), Abigail Ann Young (review author) 224-226
Labors Lost: Women’s Work and the Early Modern English Stage
Natasha Korda (book author), Susan C. Frye (review author) 227-230
The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance
Robert Mullally (book author), Emily F. Winerock (review author) 230-233
Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare’s England: Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama
Kristen Poole (book author), Ian McAdam (review author) 234-241
Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy
Federico Schneider (book author), Alexandra Coller (review author) 241-244
Women on the Stage in Early Modern France, 1540–1750
Virginia Scott (book author), Claire Sponsler (review author) 245-248
Shakespeare, the Queen’s Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History
Brian Walsh (book author), Peter Kuling (review author) 248-250


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