Women Investors and Performers in the Fortune Playhouse
Professor Lucy Munro & Professor Clare McManus
Discover the remarkable history of women investors and performers at the Fortune playhouse.
The theatre was built north of the river in 1600 by Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn as the successor to the Rose.
Far from being a world without women, however, new research from the Engendering the Stage project reveals a previously unknown story of women's investment in the Fortune between the 1620s & 1640s, and shows how the playhouse is connected to the history of female performers such as Cicely Peadle — troupe leader, tumbler and rope-dancer.
This talk will explore how the involvement of such women with the theatre relates to the broader history of performance at the Fortune and in early modern London.
The Engendering the Stage project is co-led by Lucy Munro, Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Literature at King’s College London, and Clare McManus, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Theatre at the University of Roehampton, and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
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