Performing Girls and Women: Medieval to Early Modern and Beyond

This collection of essays brings together well-established authorities, offering innovative and ground-breaking discussions of medieval dramatic cultures, the Shakespearean stage, professional actresses in Spain and Italy, the performance of music and dance, artistic representations of the female performer, and 20th/21st century adaptations.

Deanne Williams is Professor of English and Theater Studies at York University. She is the author of The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2004), Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (Palgrave, 2014), and Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2023).