The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.188 Tuesday, 15 May 2012
From: Helen M Ostovich <
Date: May 14, 2012 2:19:10 PM EDT
Subject: Early Theatre 15.1 (June 2012)
Early Theatre 15.1 (2012)
Special Issue: Access and Contestation: Women’s Performance in Early Modern England, Italy, France, and Spain
Guest Editor: Peter Parolin
Introduction:
Access and Contestation: Women’s Performance in Early Modern England, Italy, France, and Spain
Peter Parolin
Articles:
Women and Performance in Medieval and Early Modern Suffolk
James Stokes
‘If I had begun to dance’: Women’s Performance in Kemps Nine Daies Wonder
Peter Parolin 47
‘In the Sight of All’: Queen Elizabeth and the Dance of Diplomacy
Bella Mirabella
Between Courts: Female Masquers and Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy, 1603–5
Mark Hutchings and Berta Cano-Echevarría
Marie de Medici’s 1605 ballet de la reine: New Evidence and Analysis
Melinda J. Gough
‘Cattle of this colour’: Boying the Diva in As You Like It
Pamela Allen Brown
The Spanish Actress’s Art: Improvisation, Transvestism, and Disruption in Tirso’s El vergonzoso en palacio
Amy L. Tigner
Conniving Women and Superannuated Coquettes: Travestis and Caractères in the Early Modern French Theatre
Virginia Scott
Book Reviews:
Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke (eds). Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2009.
Reviewed by Catherine Silverstone
Jane Hwang Degenhardt and Elizabeth Williamson (eds). Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011.
Reviewed by Erin E. Kelly
Eugene Giddens. How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Reviewed by Brett D. Hirsch
Max Harris. Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011.
Reviewed by Abigail Ann Young
Natasha Korda. Labors Lost: Women’s Work and the Early Modern English Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Reviewed by Susan C. Frye
Robert Mullally. The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011.
Reviewed by Emily F. Winerock
Kristen Poole. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare’s England: Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Reviewed by Ian McAdam
Federico Schneider. Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010.
Reviewed by Alexandra Coller 244
Virginia Scott. Women on the Stage in Early Modern France, 1540–1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Reviewed by Claire Sponsler 247