This collection of essays explores the economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. Written by a team of distinguished scholars, the essays explore the forms of production, circulation and exchange that brought sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects and even false beards onto the stage.
This collection of essays explores the economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. Written by a team of dist...
Shakespeare's Domestic Economies Gender and Property in Early Modern England Natasha Korda "This is a truly excellent book on Shakespeare's treatment of domestic economies, that is, his attention to the domain of household management increasingly seen as the women's sphere in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England."--Jean Howard, author of The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England "This exceptional study makes an important and most welcome contribution."--Ben Jonson Journal "Korda draws on the best aspects of a variety of recent critical approaches...
Shakespeare's Domestic Economies Gender and Property in Early Modern England Natasha Korda "This is a truly excellent book on Shakespeare's treatment ...
"Labors Lost" offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wives, daughters, and widows of theater people who worked actively alongside their male kin; and...
"Labors Lost" offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theat...
