“Fright the ladies out of their wits”: Gendered passion and the English stage
This essay discusses female spectatorship from within Shakespeare’s plays as performed in his lifetime. Several plays such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet or King Lear address the issue of female spectatorship, providing comedic and tragic illustrations of how women reacted to theatrical perfor...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/16165 |