1st Edition
Performing Girls and Women Medieval to Early Modern and Beyond
Edited By Deanne Williams
Copyright 2025
340 Pages
by
Routledge
This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, and sets the terms for female performance in subsequent historical periods. Moving beyond the archival evidence that establishes that medieval and early modern women and girls... Read more
List of Images, Introduction, What is Female Performance?, Shakespeare and the Female Performer, Building on Female Performance, Afterword, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Deanne Williams is Professor of English and Theater Studies at York University. She is the author of The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2004), Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (Palgrave, 2014), and Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2023).
