The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities...
It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women...
Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under...
How does the entrance of a character on the tragic stage affect their visibility and presence? Beginning with the court culture of the seventeenth...
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how...