Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks

Portada
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 367 páginas
From the quack actresses of 1514 to women as healers, from performing mountebanks to tooth-drawers and cross-dressing, from actresses in German-speaking Europe to female English comedians in Shakespearean Europe, all are considered by the author of this work.

Dentro del libro

Contenido

1
22
3
45
4
61
5
70
6
78
8
119
9
125
10
136
The Inamorata
205
Comici and Buffoni
215
Thomas II Platter and Hippolytus
221
Female Stage Costume and Crossdressing
231
English Actresses and the Rise of the German Professional Stage
255
Pre1650 Women Associated with the English Comedians
267
The Introduction of Actresses in Germanspeaking Europe
275
Johann Beers Flying Quacks
285

11
154
Toothdrawers
177
Johann Kuhnaus Female
183
On the Stage of Europes First Secular
195
Bibliography
301
Index
335
Derechos de autor

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (2007)

M.A. Katritzky is Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies in the Literature Department of The Open University, UK, and author of The Art of Commedia: A study in the commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records (2006).

Información bibliográfica