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- Book Title
- Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1350343242
ISBN-13
9781350343245
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20065693799
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance : Performance and Pedagogy
Subject
Renaissance, Theater / History & Criticism, Shakespeare
Publication Year
2025
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-045969
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230216
Reviews
"This brilliant and transformative study completely redefines the conventional accounts of medieval and early modern theatre by exploring the wide range of evidence (which has been almost completely ignored) for girls acting in plays, usually ones written specifically for them. From Germany and France to drama in the English court, schools, households and streets, Williams is a sure guide to a field of performance we had for so long managed to forget about." -- Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA " Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is suffused with an affirmative spirit, revealing girlhood as a creative oasis in diverse medieval and early modern women's lives. With dazzling learning and linguistic dexterity, Williams illuminates dramatic writing and performance, religious devotion, visual art, song and book culture. The archival evidence she mobilizes establishes, irrefutably, "a whole new cultural tradition"." -- Sophie Tomlinson, University of Auckland, New Zealand "In a momentous departure from previous studies of both the advent of actress on the English stage as well as from critical work on women's writing, this pathbreaking book demonstrates that while female performers were indeed excluded from the public stage in Elizabeth and Jacobean England, girls rather than women nonetheless participated in a wide range of entertainments and enactments from the medieval to the early modern period. Girls of all ages were not just singers or bit-part players, but also writers and composers and were actively engaged in significant acts of performance and cultural production. Deanne Williams' startling insights into this girl culture are derived from a wealth of meticulous archival research and from acute critical assessment of both new and more familiar texts of the period." -- Dympna C. Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA "By identifying "girl culture" as a richly multifaceted phenomenon and locating it at the heart of her study of pre-modern performance, Deanne Williams offers a transformative new perspective on both theatre history and the history of childhood. Transnational and multilingual in its scope, expansive in its chronological reach and methodologically capacious, this bold and ambitious book makes plain the remarkable and shaping role girls have played in the production of culture." -- Kate Chedgzoy, Newcastle University, UK, "This brilliant and transformative study completely redefines the conventional accounts of medieval and early modern theatre by exploring the wide range of evidence (which has been almost completely ignored) for girls acting in plays, usually ones written specifically for them. From Germany and France to drama in the English court, schools, households and streets, Williams is a sure guide to a field of performance we had for so long managed to forget about." -- Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA " Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is suffused with an affirmative spirit, revealing girlhood as a creative oasis in diverse medieval and early modern women's lives. With dazzling learning and linguistic dexterity, Williams illuminates dramatic writing and performance, religious devotion, visual art, song and book culture. The archival evidence she mobilizes establishes, irrefutably, "a whole new cultural tradition"." -- Sophie Tomlinson, University of Auckland, New Zealand "In a momentous departure from previous studies of both the advent of actress on the English stage as well as from critical work on women's writing, this pathbreaking book demonstrates that while female performers were indeed excluded from the public stage in Elizabeth and Jacobean England, girls rather than women nonetheless participated in a wide range of entertainments and enactments from the medieval to the early modern period. Girls of all ages were not just singers or bit-part players, but also writers and composers and were actively engaged in significant acts of performance and cultural production. Deanne Williams' startling insights into this girl culture are derived from a wealth of meticulous archival research and from acute critical assessment of both new and more familiar texts of the period." -- Dympna C. Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA "By identifying "girl culture" as a richly multifaceted phenomenon and locating it at the heart of her study of pre-modern performance, Deanne Williams offers a transformative new perspective on both theatre history and the history of childhood. Transnational and multilingual in its scope, expansive in its chronological reach and methodologically capacious, this bold and ambitious book makes plain the remarkable and shaping role girls have played in the production of culture." -- Kate Chedgzoy, Newcastle University, UK "[A] fascinating new study ... builds a compelling case for the unique contribution of medieval and early modern girls to a number of cultural spheres, opening up new readings of canonical texts as well as introducing even expert readers to a host of likely unfamiliar materials ... Offers scholars and students alike a new model of reading early modern girlhood across cultures and genres. Together with Williams's accompanying, open-access online database, Girls on Early English Stages (GEES), the book provides an extraordinarily generous archive of the dramatic and cultural agency of premodern girls which will doubtless encourage future researchers to continue moving these figures out from the margins to centre stage." --Harry R. McCarthy, University of Exeter, The Review of English Studies
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
792.02/8083520902
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Biographical Note Note on the Text Introduction. Cultures of Girlhood Chapter One. A Theatre of Girlhood Gandersheim Girls Performance and Pedagogy Performing Girls, Performing Girlhood Humanist Hrotswitha Chapter Two. Performing Virginity Et tripident The Girlhood of the Virgin Mary 'Not fourteen' Chapter Three. The French Girlhood of Anne Boleyn Fille d'Honneur The Girlhood Reading of Claude de France Anne Boleyn's Songbook Henry VIII and the Afterlife of Girlhood Chapter Four. Translating Daughters A Girl at her Desk A Girl and a Play A Girl on Stage Chapter Five. Faithful Shepherdesses ' Courting of the Shepheardesses' 'Eliza, Queen of Shepheardes' 'Captive or Sheppardesses life' Chapter Six. Wanton Ambling Nymphs A Glittering Procession Milksop Ladies 'Enter a Nimpth' 'Fair Silver-buskined Nymphs' Chapter Seven. Global Girlhoods A Girl in the World Spice Girl A Quintessence of Cordial Conclusion. Girl my Greatness Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress begin with the Restoration, this book demonstrates that the girl is actually a well-documented category of performer and a key participant in the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It explores evidence of the girl actor in archival records of payment, eyewitness accounts, stage directions, paintings, and in the plays and masques that were explicitly composed for girls, and, in some cases, by them. Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls' participation in medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques. This book situates its historical study of the girl actor within the wider contexts of 'girl culture', including girls as singers, translators and authors. By examining the impact of the girl actor on constructions of girlhood in the work of Shakespeare - whose girl characters register and evoke the power of the performing girl - Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance argues that girls' dramatic, musical and literary performances actively shaped medieval and early modern culture. It shows how the active presence and participation of girls shaped medieval and Renaissance culture, and it reveals how some of its best-known literary and dramatic texts address, represent, and reflect upon girl children, not as an imagined ideal, but as a lived reality.
LC Classification Number
PN2590.G57W55 2023
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