Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Biographical Note
Note on the Text

Introduction. Cultures of Girlhood

Chapter One. A Theatre of Girlhood
Gandersheim Girls
Performance and Pedagogy
Performing Girls, Performing Girlhood
Humanist Hrotswitha

Chapter Two. Performing Virginity
Et tripident
The Girlhood of the Virgin Mary
'Not fourteen'

Chapter Three. The French Girlhood of Anne Boleyn
Fille d'Honneur
The Girlhood Reading of Claude de France
Anne Boleyn's Songbook
Henry VIII and the Afterlife of Girlhood

Chapter Four. Translating Daughters
A Girl at her Desk
A Girl and a Play
A Girl on Stage

Chapter Five. Faithful Shepherdesses
'Courting of the Shepheardesses'
'Eliza, Queen of Shepheardes'
'Captive or Sheppardesses life'

Chapter Six. Wanton Ambling Nymphs
A Glittering Procession
Milksop Ladies
'Enter a Nimpth'
'Fair Silver-buskined Nymphs'

Chapter Seven. Global Girlhoods
A Girl in the World
Spice Girl
A Quintessence of Cordial

Conclusion. Girl my Greatness

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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• Estudos e crítica shakespeareana
• História Antiga: c 500 a c 1450/1500
• História social e cultural
• Actores e executantes individuais
• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• História da Europa
• História Medieval

medieval; early modern; actors; masquers; playwrights; musicians; singers; authors; translators; tenth-century Germany; Civil War England; liturgical drama; Tudor civic pageants; royal entries; Elizabethan household performances; Stuart court masques; Hrotswitha of Gandersheim; Gandersheim Abbey; Erasmus; Shakespeare's Pericles; Virgin Mary; Anne Boleyn; European courts; Lady Jane Lumley; Euripides's Iphigeneia; Bisham Entertainment; As You Like It; The Faithful Shepherdess; John Fletcher; Queen Anne; John Milton; Hamlet; The Tempest; Richard III; Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland; Cleopatra