Performing Woman: Female Theatricality in All's Well, That Ends Well

Performing Woman: Female Theatricality in All's Well, That Ends Well

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Lehnhof considers the character of Helena, the traveling "Doctor She" of Shakespeare's "All's Well, That Ends Well", in light of the ciarlatani, or female performers in early mountebank medicine shows that traveled Europe peddling cures and folk remedies.

ISBN

978-0-415-97325-0

Publication Date

2007

Publisher

Routledge

Keywords

William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's plays, All's Well That Ends Well, theatricality, gender, women, female performers, actresses

Disciplines

Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory | Family, Life Course, and Society | Gender and Sexuality | Literature in English, British Isles | Performance Studies | Theatre History

Copyright

Routledge/Taylor & Francis

Performing Woman: Female Theatricality in All's Well, That Ends Well

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