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- Title
Prostitutes, Nuns, Actresses: Breaking the Convent Wall in Seventeenth-Century Venice.
- Authors
Bhasin, Christine Scippa
- Abstract
While the tradition of convent theatre in various parts of early modern Italy has been well-documented, this essay seeks to elucidate the heretofore unsurveyed performance tradition by nuns in seventeenth-century Venice. Just around the corner from opera houses and carnival performances in the piazza, female monastics performed sacred and secular plays, often written by secular male playwrights and dedicated to specific nuns, before diverse audiences, the particular case of a convent for repentant prostitutes known as the "Convertite," on the historical reality of prostitutes turned nuns-as-actresses.
- Subjects
ITALY; NUNS; CONVENTS; THEATER; 17TH century theater; EX-sex workers; ACTRESSES; MONASTIC life of women; SAINT Mary of Egypt (Play); SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Theatre Journal, 2014, Vol 66, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0192-2882
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/tj.2014.0029