Writing for them. Playwrights and female theatregoers in Europe

The issue is available online: https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/15230

Contents

Véronique Lochert, ‘Introduction: “Theatre is the art of pleasing the lady”, or how women’s reception shapes the theatre’

The experience of female spectators

Marzia Pieri, ‘The ladies of the party, at the wake and at court’

Jean-François Lattarico, ‘A Feminine Version of The Book of the Courtier: Notes on the Ginipedia by Vincenzo Nolfi, Venetian Playwright’

Sylvaine Guyot, ‘La Palatine, a Paradigmatic Spectator? On the Appeal of Theatre: Practices, Tastes, Experience’

Jean Marsden, ‘Commanding Eyes: Female Spectators and the Restoration Theatrical Repertoire »

‘For the ladies’: what kind of addresses?

Nina Hugot, “‘Si fault-il pourtant clorre le bec’. Addresses to female spectators in Théodore de Bèze (Abraham Sacrificing) and Louis des Masures (Holy Tragedies)’

Flavie Kerautret, “‘Ce discours n’est pas pour votre regard, mes Dames’. Addresses to women in the prologues of Bruscambille”

Coline Piot, “Do playwrights write ‘for them’? The pragmatic implications of bawdy humour in comedies”

Rebecca Yearling, “Experimental plays, conventional endings: Gender normativity and the female spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir”

Gender and genres

Sandra Clerc, “A stage for all genders: the theatre of Luigi Groto”

Françoise Decroisette, “Is a ‘feminine’ tragedy possible? Valeria Miani Negri’s answer in Celinda (1611)”

Marcella Trambaioli, “Some insights into Lope de Vega’s urban-set comedy”