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Contents: Introduction: 'Mountebanks, monsters and several beasts': Margaret Cavendish at the Antwerp carnival fair. Part I Performing Medieval Quacks: Quack actresses of 1514 Literary mountebanks I: sex 'n shopping on the medieval religious stage A quack picture: a key to the appearance of medieval staging? Part II Visual Aspects of Mountebank Activity: Friendship albums and other visual sources Containers, stages and venues The troupe Performative aspects. Part III Marketing Medicine: Medical and commercial activity Women as healers Literary mountebanks II: stage quacks of Ben Jonson, Thomas Killigrew, Aphra Behn and Christian Weise Quack couples: the male-female partnership. Part IV Gendering Tooth-Drawers: Tooth-drawers Literary mountebanks III: Johann Kuhnau's female tooth-drawer, 1700 A French tooth-drawer: on the stage of Europe's first secular theatre? Part V Commedia dell'Arte Actresses: The inamorata Comici and buffoni Italian mixed-gender troupes: Thomas II Platter and Hippolytus Guarinonius Female stage costume and cross-dressing. Part VI English Comedians in Shakespearean Europe: The Women: English actresses and the rise of the German professional stage Pre-1650 women associated with the English comedians The introduction of actresses in German-speaking Europe Literary mountebanks IV: Johann Beer's flying quacks and mixed-gender 'English' troupe. Bibliography Index.
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