<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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</p></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

“In the Head of the Worthiest Women”: Amazon Queens and Performing Heroines in Jacobean Court Masques

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Gender Studies

Queen Anne of Denmark’s role - as actress and patroness - in emancipating womanliness onstage by direct performance is strictly connected to the emerging trend...

“In the Head of the Worthiest Women”: Amazon Queens and Performing Heroines in Jacobean Court Masques

Published Online: Feb 08, 2013

Page range: 51 - 67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10320-012-0028-3

Keywords
Amazons, Ben Jonson, Jacobean court, masques, Queen Anne

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“In the Head of the Worthiest Women”: Amazon Queens and Performing Heroines in Jacobean Court Masques

Published Online: Feb 08, 2013

Page range: 51 - 67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10320-012-0028-3

KeywordsAmazons, Ben Jonson, Jacobean court, masques, Queen Anne

This content is open access.

Keywords
Amazons, Ben Jonson, Jacobean court, masques, Queen Anne