“IN THE HEAD OF THE WORTHIEST WOMEN”: AMAZON QUEENS AND PERFORMING HEROINES IN JACOBEAN COURT MASQUES
“IN THE HEAD OF THE WORTHIEST WOMEN”: AMAZON QUEENS AND PERFORMING HEROINES IN JACOBEAN COURT MASQUES

Summary/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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