Performing women : gender, self, and representation in late medieval Metz / Susannah Crowder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowder, Susannah, author.

Series:

Manchester medieval literature and culture.

Manchester medieval literature and culture; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380.

Catherine.

Women in the theater--France--Metz--History--To 1500.

Women in the theater.

Actresses--France--Metz--History.

Actresses.

Literary patrons--France--Metz--History--To 1500.

Literary patrons.

Theater--France--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( x, 263 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This study 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.

Contents:

Acting as Catherine: writing the history of female performers

'I, Catherine': biography, documentary culture, and public presence

Performance and the parish: space, memory, and material devotion

Negotiated devotions and performed histories: laywomen in monastic spaces

'Call me Claude': female actors, impersonation, and cultural transmission

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-256) and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526141989

1526141981

9781526127242

1526127245

OCLC:

1050362674