Performing Women - Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz

Informationen zum Autor Susannah Crowder is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Klappentext This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female performer to centre stage. It integrates new approaches to drama, gender and patronage with a performance methodology to explore how the women of fifteenth-century Metz enacted varied kinds of performance that extended beyond the theatre. For example, decades before the 1468 play, Joan of Arc returned from the grave in the form of an impersonator named Claude. Offering a new paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture, Performing women is essential reading for scholars of pre-modern women and drama, and is also relevant to lecturers and students of late-medieval performance, religion and memory. Zusammenfassung This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating new approaches to drama! gender and patronage! it offers an original paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Family tree of Catherine Baudoche and Catherine GronnaixIntroduction1 Acting as Catherine: writing the history of female performers2 'I, Catherine': biography, documentary culture, and public presence3 Performance and the parish: space, memory, and material devotion4 Negotiated devotions and performed histories: laywomen in monastic spaces5 'Call me Claude': female actors, impersonation, and cultural transmissionConclusionBibliographyIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Susannah Crowder
• Mitarbeit: Anke Bernau (Herausgeber), David Matthews (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781526106407
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0640-7
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; French, France, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, DRAMA / Medieval