Preface Chapter I Constructions of femininity Construction Mirroring Marriage Mistress and servant Domesticity Silence Translation notes Chapter II Locations Dutch dramas The threshold In the street and at home The home upside down The forest and the court The woods and the temple English dramas The paradoxes of confinement Troy and Grecian camp Sicilian prison and Bohemian festival In the snares of the fair Translation notes Chapter III Bodies Farces and city comedies Busy body and idle body Body and the marketplace Body in pieces Womb and tomb Pastoral plays, problem plays and tragicomedies Commodified body of the princess Body in tears Maternal body Wounded body Translation notes Conclusions Bibliography