Work

“In the Head of the Worthiest Women”: Amazon Queens and Performing Heroines in Jacobean Court Masques

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Queen Anne of Denmark’s role - as actress and patroness - in emancipating womanliness onstage by direct performance is strictly connected to the emerging trend of fashioning masques in the early Jacobean court. My paper will focus on the connection/contamination of this dramatic phenomenon with the current imagery of acting warlike heroines, conflicting Anne’s policy for entertainments with masculine and royal anxieties

Source: Gender Studies

DOI: 10.2478/v10320-012-0028-3

Author: Michele De Benedictis

Institution: Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

Language: English

Topic: Renaissance Literature and Culture

Subfield: Classics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2053955082