Eleanor Rycroft
Biographic Data
| ID | 5646293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Rycroft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Rycroft |
| SIGNATURE | RYCROFT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3563-9421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Whither Will you Walke, My Lord
During the 1630s a series of plays appear on the London stage with an extraordinary concentration of the city’s place names in their titles; they are known collectively as ‘place-realist’ plays. This article considers three of these dramas — Shirley’s Hyde Park, Nabbes’ Tottenham Court, and Brome’s The Sparagus Garden — in light of the emergent practice of promenading during this time. All three plays contain numerous references to pedestrianism,…
Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity
Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity is the first full-length critical study to analyse the importance of beards in terms of the theatrical performance of masculinity. According to medical, cultural, and literary discourses of early modern era in England, facial hair marked adult manliness while beardlessness indicated boyhood. Beards were therefore a passport to cultural prerogatives. This book explores this in relation to…
Voicing Women, “Community” Drama, and The Late Lancashire Witches
On August 17, 2012, as part of the Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images 400 Years After the Lancashire Witches conference held at Lancaster University, a semi-staged reading of Heywood and Brome's The Late Lancashire Witches was performed at Lancaster Castle; the first time a witch trial had been enacted at the castle since 1634, when the witches who are dramatized in the play were tried. When a Lancaster judge disagreed with the verdict…
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Voicing Women, “Community” Drama, and The Late Lancashire Witches
On August 17, 2012, as part of the Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images 400 Years After the Lancashire Witches conference held at Lancaster University, a semi-staged reading of Heywood and Brome's The Late Lancashire Witches was performed at Lancaster Castle; the first time a witch trial had been enacted at the castle since 1634, when the witches who are dramatized in the play were tried. When a Lancaster judge disagreed with the verdict…
Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity
Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity is the first full-length critical study to analyse the importance of beards in terms of the theatrical performance of masculinity. According to medical, cultural, and literary discourses of early modern era in England, facial hair marked adult manliness while beardlessness indicated boyhood. Beards were therefore a passport to cultural prerogatives. This book explores this in relation to…
‘Whither Will you Walke, My Lord
During the 1630s a series of plays appear on the London stage with an extraordinary concentration of the city’s place names in their titles; they are known collectively as ‘place-realist’ plays. This article considers three of these dramas — Shirley’s Hyde Park, Nabbes’ Tottenham Court, and Brome’s The Sparagus Garden — in light of the emergent practice of promenading during this time. All three plays contain numerous references to pedestrianism,…
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Drama (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · 1500-1600 (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Beards in literature (1 work) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (1 work)