New episode: Dr. Sarah Burdett joins us to talk about a terrifying figure in Revolutionary-era Europe: the armed woman! How did armed and sometimes violent women onstage reflect concerns about gender and politics amidst the French Revolution? theatrehistorypodcast.libsyn.com/episode-111-...
At the height of the French Revolution, a new fear gripped many people in England: Armed women. Scenes like the storming of the Bastille and riots over the price of bread in Paris, in which women figu...
