Performing Women - Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz - Susannah Crowder - Hardback Bog - Manchester University Press - 2018 -
Brand: Manchester University Press
Description
This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating new approaches to drama, gender and patronage, it offers an original paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture. -- .
