Women, Medicine and Itinerant Theatre, 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks

The issue of early modern European women on the professional stage is profoundly linked with, and usefully considered in conjunction with, the performative marketing of medicine and cosmetics, suggests Katritzky (theater studies, Open U., Britain). Studying itinerant performing and healing women, she re-focuses a wide range of documents to allow these women to take center stage rather than be cast into the shadow of the rare freak sensationalized in mainstream history. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)