Opis
Preface
Chapter I Constructions of femininity
Construction
Mirroring
Marriage
Mistress and servant
Domesticity
Silence
Translation notes
Chapter II Locations
Dutch dramas
The threshold
In the street and at home
The home upside down
The forest and the court
The woods and the temple
English dramas
The paradoxes of confinement
Troy and Grecian camp
Sicilian prison and Bohemian festival
In the snares of the fair
Translation notes
Chapter III Bodies
Farces and city comedies
Busy body and idle body
Body and the marketplace
Body in pieces
Womb and tomb
Pastoral plays, problem plays and tragicomedies
Commodified body of the princess
Body in tears
Maternal body
Wounded body
Translation notes
Conclusions
Bibliography