Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 194 pages)
ISBN:
9781350002623
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9781350002616
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9781350002609
Series Statement:
The Arden Shakespeare
Content:
"Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today, dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to 'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Introduction: hunger artists -- Performing death and desire in Othello -- Playing parts in King Lear -- Being the female body in Macbeth -- Making love in Hamlet -- Falling and rising in Richard III -- Dying in Romeo and Juliet.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350002593
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reynolds, Paige, 1967 - Performing Shakespeare's women London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2019 ISBN 9781350002593
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Drama
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Aufführung
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Frauenrolle
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Tod
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350002623
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350002623
