Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage

Natasha Korda

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

Labors Lost

Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage

Natasha Korda

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204315

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About this book

Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time.

Author / Editor information

Natasha Korda is Professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"This is a very exciting book. Its chief claim, more than amply substantiated, is that women played a much more active role in the production of early modern theater than prior scholarship has asserted. Labors Lost offers a rich and nuanced picture of the many different ways in which women took part in the early modern theatrical world."—Jean E. Howard, Columbia University

"Long before they were regularly seen on stage, women were of crucial importance to the commercial theater behind the scenes. In Labors Lost, Natasha Korda argues that female labor was central to the development of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. . . . Korda evidently relishes the abundance and variety of her subject, using economic and commercial history as a lively and even lyrical approach. . . . Her subtle readings show that women's role in commercial theater was not just an issue behind the scenes, but one which was regularly dramatized by (all-male) casts on stage."—TLS

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Labors Lost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Dame Usury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Chapter 3. Froes and Rebatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 4. Cries and Oysterwives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 25 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: September 21, 2011
ISBN: 9780812204315