'Who Is't Can Read a Woman?': "Woman" in Seventeenth-Century Drama

Dear Colleagues,

This collection of essays will engage with contemporary re-calibrations of women and seventeenth-century drama through the prism of gender and queer studies and intersectional feminism, which have nuanced and deepened the second- and third wave feminist engagements with early modern theatre. By looking at theatrical interventions across the whole of the seventeenth century (from Marlowe to Behn), the collection illuminates continuities and connections, discontinuities and challenges to ‘woman’, notions of gender and performance and the changing ‘gaze’ of audiences across the break of the English Civil war. Topics of interest for this collection include: how is ‘woman’ configured on the stage in both the all-boys stage and the post-restoration male and female stage? What kinds of bodies do we see on stage? Do women authors give us a ‘difference of view’? What kinds of staging practices and scenography are gender based and gender-critical? What hidden histories can be found of non-normative expressions of, and engagements with, identity and embodiment? Essays may also address or focus on contemporary performances which challenge early modern texts through the lens of intersectional, genderqueer, or eroto-historiographic theory.

Dr. Kate Aughterson
Dr. Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Guest Editors

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• woman
• genderqueer
• histories of gender
• authorship
• performance