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

Volume 11 (2012): Issue 1 (November 2012)

By: Michele De Benedictis

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|Feb 2013

Abstract

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

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10320-012-0028-3 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0134 | Journal ISSN: 1583-980X

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Language: English

Page range: 51 - 67

Published on: Feb 8, 2013

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Jacobean court,

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Sociology, other,

Literary studies,

Literary studies, general,

Linguistics and semiotics,

Applied linguistics,

Applied linguistics, other,

Cultural studies,

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