Recently added articles from Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England:
"A fine and private place": chapman's theatrical widow.
Jan 01, 2009; ... I. MARVELL underestimates the amorous imagination when he says that "the grave's a fine and private place, / But none ... do there embrace." In Bartholomew Fair Quarlous argues almost the opposite, that suitors must "visit [a widow] as thou wouldst doe a Tombe, with a Torch ... ...
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, by Farah Karim-Cooper. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. x + 221, 17 ill. Hardback [pounds sterling] 50.00. From Farah Karim-Cooper's study of cosmetics in the early modern period, one learns a vast amount about ...
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England, by Gina Bloom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 277. Cloth: $59.95. Gina Bloom's Voice in Motion takes the movement of the voice--"from the speaker's body, through the air, and to ...
Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria, by Karen Britland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 292. Cloth $96.00. Karen Britland's Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria is an admirable work, revisionist and yet respectful of previous scholarship, ...
Women on Stage in Stuart Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Women on Stage in Stuart Drama, by Sophie Tomlinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2005. Pp. xii + 308. Cloth $96.00. For so many years, scholars of English Renaissance drama accepted the proposition that no women performed on stage until the Restoration and when they ...