Daily life of women in Shakespeare's England

• Verfasst von: Kemp, Theresa D. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Daily life of women in Shakespeare's England
• Verf.angabe: Theresa D. Kemp
• Verlagsort: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xix, 276 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Daily life through history
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 251-266
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-7025-5
• ISBN: 9798765116265
• Schlagwörter: (g)England / (s)Frau / (s)Sozialstatus / (z)Geschichte 1500-1700
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Kemp, Theresa D: Daily life of women in Shakespeare's England. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 |(DLC)2023054072
• Sach-SW: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
• Sach-SW: Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen
• Sach-SW: Gender studies: women
• Sach-SW: HIS058000
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Geograph. SW: England
• Geograph. SW: England
• Zeit-SW: Jakobinische und frühe Stuart-Periode (1603 bis 1649)
• Zeit-SW: Tudor-Periode (1485 bis 1603)
• Zeit-SW: c 1500 to c 1600
• Zeit-SW: c 1600 to c 1700
• K10plus-PPN: 1879566109

Abstract

Delve into the often-overlooked lives and legacies of everyday women in Tudor and Stuart England. Owing to their privilege and social stature, much is known about the elite women of 16th- and 17th-century England. Historians know far less, however, about the everyday women from the middle and lower classes from the 1550s to 1650 who left behind only scattered bits and pieces of their lives. Born into a narrow class and gender hierarchy that placed women second to men in almost all regards, women from the poor and middling ranks had limited social and economic opportunities beyond what men and the church afforded them. Yet, as Theresa D. Kemp shows in this addition to the Daily Life through History series, many of these women, most of them illiterate by modern standards, found creative ways to assert agency and push back against social norms. In an era when William Shakespeare debuted his plays at the Globe Theatre in London, everyday English women were active in religious movements, wrote literature, and went to court to protest abuse at home. Ultimately, a close examination of the lives of these women reveals how instrumental they were in shaping English society during a transformative and dynamic period of British history

Abstract

"A revealing look into the complex lives of the understudied, everyday women of Tudor and Stuart England"-- Provided by publisher