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

• Authors: Michele De Benedictis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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

Keywords

EN

Amazons; Ben Jonson; Jacobean court; masques; Queen Anne

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-67

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Michele De Benedictis

• University of Cassino Via Guglielmo Marconi, 10, 03043 Cassino Frosinone, Italy

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0028-3