Title
Performing Woman: Female Theatricality in All's Well, That Ends Well
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Description
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
Recommended Citation
Lehnhof, Kent. "Performing Woman: Female Theatricality in All's Well, That Ends Well." All's Well, That Ends Well: New Critical Essays. Ed. Gary Waller. Routledge, 2007. 111-24.
Copyright
Routledge/Taylor & Francis