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"In Telltale Women Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama, arguing that narrative historiographers frequently value women's political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest women's voices with authority, while dramatists reshape this source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemn queenship and female power"--

Queens in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- In literature. --- History --- Historiography.

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Este trabajo trata de los adornos del cuerpo desde criterios estéticos, morales, religiosos, sociales, económicos y, por supuesto, sexuales. En algunas épocas, el cuerpo y sus adornos fueron reglamentados y condenados por la Biblia, algunos filósofos, poetas y satíricos griegos y latinos, la patrística, los tratados médicos, los teólogos moralistas que conformaron una tradición misógina y produjeron gran cantidad de escritos, de ahí lo ingente y variado del corpus aquí abordado, que da cuenta de lo extendido que estaba este tema en las letras medievales, áureas y virreinales, épocas a las que se ciñe el estudio.Se analizan algunos los rituales corporales que llevaban a cabo las mujeres en sus habitaciones, en las casas de baños, donde se hacía la higiene personal, en el estrado, donde se reunían con otras mujeres, o cuando salían de sus aposentos para lucirse en la iglesia o en las procesiones. Asimismo, se abordan los oficios relacionados con la producción, venta y uso de los afeites, así como el cuidado del cuerpo y las prácticas que se llevaban a cabo para mantener el buen olor corporal, la lozanía y tersura en la piel, para teñir los cabellos, depilarse, volver los dientes blancos, suavizar las manos o quitar las manchas. Acompañan a la obra un glosario de términos relacionados con los afeites y un recetario.

Cosmetics. --- Beauty, Personal --- Women in literature. --- Misogyny in literature. --- Women --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions.

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Voici comment, dans un prologue adressé au Roi, Etienne Jodelle définit la pièce qui est sur le point d'être jouée devant lui : [...] C'est une Tragedie. Qui d'une voix et plaintive et hardie Te represente un Romain Marc Antoine Et Cléopatre Egyptienne Roine [...]. Si la voix de la tragédie est "et plaintive et hardie", la critique moderne a essentiellement retenu le premier adjectif, jusqu'à en faire un point majeur de la définition du genre au XVIe siècle. Que faire alors de la seconde épithète avancée par Jodelle ? Le dramaturge définit ici la voix de sa tragédie, mais il s'agit également pour lui d'y associer la voix de son héroïne, Cléopâtre, dont la hardiesse est célébrée dans la pièce. Nina Hugot examine l'ensemble des pièces tragiques imprimées entre 1537 et 1583 et souligne l'importance des deux versants de cette caractérisation de la tragédie et de son héroïne dans la constitution de l'esthétique du genre au XVIe siècle.

French drama (Tragedy) --- French drama (Tragedy). --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Women in literature --- Femmes --- Littérature française --- Tragédie française --- Dans la littérature.

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"The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the women, as well as on those of the male playwrights, and offers multiple viewpoints and critiques that enable readers to understand the context of each play and form their own views. Four core themes bridge the depictions of the heroines: the socio-political dynamic of ancient Greek expectations of women and their roles in society, the conflict of masculinity versus femininity, the alternation of defiance and submission, and the interplay between deceit and rhetoric. Each chapter offers clear descriptions of plot and mythical background, and builds on the text of the plays to enable reflections on language and performance. All technical terms are explained and key topics or references are pulled out into box features that provide further background information. Discussion points at the ends of chapters enable readers to explore various topics more deeply"--

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- Heroines in literature --- Women in literature --- Mythology in literature --- Drama --- Thematology --- Classical Greek literature

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"The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring women's role in the rise of the fairy tale and their use of this new genre to carve out roles as major contributors to the literature of their time. This new edition, with a new introduction and a forward by acclaimed scholar Allison Stedman, emphasizes the scholarly legacy of Anne Duggan's original work, and its continuing field-changing implications. The book studies the works of two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Analyzing their use of the novel, the chronicle, and the fairy tale, Duggan examines how Scudéry and d'Aulnoy responded to and participated in the changes of their society, but from different generational and ideological positions. This study also takes into account the history of the salon, an unofficial institution that served as a locus for elite women's participation in the cultural and literary production of their society. In order to highlight the debates that emerged with the increased participation of aristocratic women within the public sphere, the book also explores the responses of two academicians, Nicolas Boileau and Charles Perrault"--

French literature --- Women in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Fairy tales in literature --- Aulnoy, --- Scudéry, Madeleine de,