How to do things with shoes: Digging (for) Dekker’s footwear
Professor Natasha Korda
What can the archaeological finds at The Rose Playhouse tell us about early modern actors’ footwear and footwork?
And what might theatre history and the dramatic canon look like if reconsidered from the ground up — that is, from the perspective of the feet?
How did female artisanal labour contribute to the manufacture of shoes, and conversely, how did shoes contribute to the fashioning of gender on the early modern stage?
By drawing on a range of evidence — starting with Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday, written for and first performed at The Rose in 1599 — this talk will ask what precisely it meant to ‘tread the boards’ of the Rose stage.
Natasha Korda is Director of the Center for the Humanities and Professor of English and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
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