 | Labors Lost: Women''s Work and the Early Modern English Stage Subjects: Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 16th century; Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century; Women -- Employment -- England -- History -- 16th century; Women -- Employment -- England -- History -- 17th century; Theater -- Englan; Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda is Professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press. |
