"Labors Lost" offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time.

Note on Spelling and Dates
Prologue
Chapter 1. Labors Lost
Chapter 2. Dame Usury
Chapter 3. Froes and Rebatos
Chapter 4. Cries and Oysterwives
Chapter 5. False Wares
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Natasha Korda is Professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press.