The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage
Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata
The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage traces the transnational connections between Shakespeare's all-male stage and the first female stars in the West. The book is the first to use Italian and English plays and other sources to explore this relationship, focusing on the gifted actress who radically altered female roles and expanded the horizons of drama just as the English were building their first paying theaters. By the time Shakespeare began to writeplays, women had been acting professionally in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling across the Continent and acting in all genres, including tragicomedy and tragedy. Some women becam…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-263808-3
- EAN: 9780192638083
- Produktnummer: 37908958
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 20 Illustrations
Über den Autor
Pamela Allen Brown, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has published widely on female playing and jesting in early modern England. In this work, she uses a transnational lens to show how the English stage benefited from the innovations of actresses in the commedia dell'arte, the first professional companies to tour foreign cities, including London. Professor Brown's books include Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama and the Culture ofJest in Early Modern England, As You Like It: Texts and Contexts (with Jean E. Howard), and Women Players in Early Modern England: Beyond the All-Male Stage (with Peter Parolin). A founding member of Theater Without Borders, she has also translated stage dialogues by the diva Isabella Andreini in TheLovers' Debates for the Stage: A Bilingual Edition (with Eric Nicholson and Julie Campbell).
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