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This study offers an interdisciplinary gendered assessment of early modern performing itinerant healers (mountebanks, charlatans and quacksalvers). As Katritzky shows, quacks, male or female, combined, in widely varying proportions, three elements: the medical, the itinerant and the theatrical. Above all, they were performers. They used theatricality, it its widest possible sense, to attract customers and to promote and advertise their pharmaceuticals and health care services. Katritzky investigates here the performative aspects of quack marketing and healing methods, and their profound links with the rise of Europe's professional actresses. Women, Medicine and Theatre also recovers women's roles in the economy of the itinerant quack stage. Women associated with mountebank troupes were medically and theatrically active at every level from major stage celebrities to humble urine sample collectors, but also included sedentary relatives, non-performing assistants, door- and bookkeepers, wardrobe mistresses, prop and costume loaners, landladies, spectators, patrons and clients. Katritzky's study of the whole range of women who supported the troupes contextualizes the activities of their male counterparts and rehabilitates a broad spectrum of diversely occupied women. --From publisher's description.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Theatrical science --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- 769.04:61 --- 792.22 --- 82-2 "15/17" --- 396 "15/17" --- 396 "17" --- Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- Theatervormen: blijspelen; comedies; schelmenstukken; kluchten; vaudevilles --- Toneel. Drama--Moderne Tijd --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Moderne Tijd --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Traveling theater --- European drama --- Women in literature. --- Quacks and quackery --- Actresses --- Quackery --- Drama --- History, 16th Century --- History, 17th Century --- History, 18th Century --- Medicine in Literature --- Women --- Actresses. --- European drama. --- Quacks and quackery. --- Traveling theater. --- Heilerin. --- Fahrender. --- Frau. --- Drama. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Geschichte 1500-1750. --- Europe. --- 396 "17" Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 396 "15/17" Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Moderne Tijd --- 82-2 "15/17" Toneel. Drama--Moderne Tijd --- 792.22 Theatervormen: blijspelen; comedies; schelmenstukken; kluchten; vaudevilles --- 769.04:61 Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- Women in literature --- Charlatans --- Impostors and imposture --- Medicine --- Swindlers and swindling --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Traveling theatrical companies --- Theater --- Theatrical companies --- History --- History and criticism

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Painting --- History --- drama [discipline] --- commedia dell'arte --- Toeput, Lodewijk --- anno 1500-1599 --- Netherlands --- Belgium

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Guarinoni, Hippolyt --- Platter, Felix --- Platter, Thomas [jr.]

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Theatrical science --- Drama --- drama [literature] --- performance art --- plays [performed works] --- anno 1500-1799 --- drama [discipline] --- plays [performing arts compositions]

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Theatrical science --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Theater --- Theater audiences --- Théâtre --- History --- Sources. --- Sources --- Production and direction --- Histoire --- Production et mise en scène --- Publics --- Théâtre --- Production et mise en scène