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Informationen zum Autor Sophie Tomlinson is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Auckland! New Zealand. She has published essays on female performance and women's drama in early modern England! and has edited John Fletcher's comedy The Wild-Goose Chase for the forthcoming Revels Companion Library volume of Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance. Klappentext A study into the history of the seventeenth-century stage from the perspective of the actresses. Zusammenfassung Sophie Tomlinson examines the emergence of the actress and her professional acceptance through an analysis of the play texts! masques! and private productions of early modern England. More than half a century before the true actress appeared on stage! playwrights explored the issue of femininity and its portrayal on stage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: shifting sisters; 1. 'Magic in majesty': the poetics of female performance in the Jacobean masque; 2. 'Naked hearts': feminising the Stuart pastoral stage; 3. 'Significant liberty': the actress in Caroline comedy; 4. Sirens of doom and defiance in Caroline tragedy; Interchapter: 'Enter Ianthe, Veiled'; 5. The fancy-stage of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle; 6. Styles of female greatness: Katherine Philips's translations of Corneille; Coda.
