Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-04

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Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women. By ELISSA B. WEAVER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xiii + 304 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-55082-3.

Elissa Weaver's pioneering study is a much-needed work that throws light on an almost completely unexplored area of literary and historical research. In a clear and enjoyable style, Weaver takes the reader through the history of Tuscan convent theatre between the mid-fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries. She shows that nuns were engaged in many cultural and artistic activities, including commissioning, writing, and performing theatrical representations that took place in the closed...

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