The Elizabethan country house entertainment : print, performance and gender

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The Elizabethan country house entertainment : print, performance and gender

Title remainder

print, performance and gender

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, Ohio State University

Creator

• Kolkovich, Elizabeth Zeman

Subject

• Country homes -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
• Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
• Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
• Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century

Language

eng

Summary

This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in definitions of England. In performance and print, country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted regional and national identities. In its investigation of how the hosts used performances to negotiate local and national politics, the book also sheds light on how and why such entertainments enabled female performance and authorship at a time when English women did not write or perform commercial plays. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is fascinating reading for scholars and students of early modern literature, theatre, and women's history. --

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BTCTA

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography