Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists cr

Analyses the construction of gender through bodily elements and clothing in early modern England.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical productio

Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Can the Subaltern Signify? Tracing the Lives of Girls and Women from