Performing Women Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz - Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female performer to centre stage. It integrates new approaches to drama, gender and patronage with a performance methodology to explore how the women of fifteenth-century Metz enacted varied kinds of performance that extended beyond the theatre. For example, decades before the 1468 play, Joan of Arc returned from the grave in the form of an impersonator named Claude. Offering a new paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture, Performing women is essential reading for scholars of pre-modern women and drama, and is also relevant to lecturers and students of late-medieval performance, religion and memory.

ISBN:	9781526106407
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Published date:	03 Sep 2018
DEWEY:	792.08209443853
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	280
Weight:	476g
Height:	218mm
Width:	148mm
Spine width:	26mm

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