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    "pk": 40546,
    "title": "Reflections of Isabella: Hermaphroditic Mirroring in \nMirtilla\n and Giovan Battista Andreini’s \nAmor nello specchio",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This essay explores the artistic influence of Isabella Andreini, (1562-1604), arguably the greatest actress of her age, on her son, Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654), the leading Italian playwright of the seventeenth century. I begin by examining Isabella Andreini’s androgynous persona and the dramaturgical innovations in her pastoral play \nMirtilla \n(1588) that humorously foreground the subversion of gender norms, contextualizing Isabella’s “hermaphroditic” art as not only performative and protofeminist, but as part of the Baroque problematization of a mimetic aesthetic. The dynamic female performances Isabella features in \nMirtilla \nshowcase her trans-gender and “trans-genre” virtuosity, which, as I argue, inflects Giovan Battista’s sexually ambiguous representation of female subjectivity in his Baroque comedy \nAmor nello specchio \n(\nLove in the Mirror\n, 1622), specifically as reflected through the androgynous mirroring embodied by the play’s feminized transfigurations of Narcissus and the Hermaphrodite. In both \nMirtilla \nand \nAmor nello specchio\n, the virtuosic art of simulation epitomized in the performances of these re-figured and reconfigured female characters, written for and played by women, allows them to re-inhabit the master plots to which they refer, and through modes of mimicry and extended fetishistic play, transform the “mirror” of comedy by elevating theatre’s capacity for illusionistic metamorphosis.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Italian Literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "Andreini"
        },
        {
            "word": "Mirror"
        },
        {
            "word": "Theatre"
        },
        {
            "word": "Women"
        },
        {
            "word": "Androgyny"
        },
        {
            "word": "performance"
        },
        {
            "word": "Comedy"
        },
        {
            "word": "baroque"
        },
        {
            "word": "mímesis"
        },
        {
            "word": "Metamorphosis"
        },
        {
            "word": "Hermaphrodite"
        },
        {
            "word": "Narcissus"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Open Theme Issue",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4br8n5zs",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Alexia",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ferracuti",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Columbia University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-06-06T19:33:59-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2014-06-06T19:33:59-07:00",
    "date_published": "2015-07-30T00:00:00-07:00",
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    ]
}