{"product_id":"labors-lost-9780812243444","title":"Labors Lost","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabors 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a very exciting book. Its chief claim, more than amply substantiated, is that women played a much more active role in the production of early modern theater than prior scholarship has asserted. \u003ci\u003eLabors Lost\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich and nuanced picture of the many different ways in which women took part in the early modern theatrical world.\" * Jean E. Howard, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Long before they were regularly seen on stage, women were of crucial importance to the commercial theater behind the scenes. In \u003ci\u003eLabors Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Natasha Korda argues that female labor was central to the development of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. . . . Korda evidently relishes the abundance and variety of her subject, using economic and commercial history as a lively and even lyrical approach. . . . Her subtle readings show that women's role in commercial theater was not just an issue behind the scenes, but one which was regularly dramatized by (all-male) casts on stage.\" * \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Spelling and Dates\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Labors Lost\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Dame Usury\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Froes and Rebatos\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Cries and Oysterwives\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. False Wares\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405716988247,"sku":"9780812243444","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812243444.jpg?v=1730493381","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/labors-lost-9780812243444","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}