Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage

ISBN-13: 9780415141642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str.

Carol Chillington Rutter

Opis

This work speculates on how the theatre plays women's bodies, and how audiences read them. Covering such topics such as sex, death, race, gender, culture and politics, the author explores five of Shakespeare's female characters as she reconstructs specific moments of theatrical production that puts bodies spectacularly in play.

Spis treści

List of plates, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Body parts or parts for bodies: speculating on Cordelia, 2 Snatched bodies: Ophelia in the grave, 3 Shadowing Cleopatra: making whiteness strange, 4 Designs on Shakespeare: Troilus’s sleeve, Cressida’s glove, Helen’s placket, 5 Remembering Emilia: gossiping hussies, revolting housewives, Notes, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.