Hamlet's Hereditary Queen: Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power

ISBN-13: 9781032193137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str.

Australia) Roberts Kerrie (University of Sydney

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This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet’s Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure within the play. It shows how traditional readings of this character, both performance-based and scholarly, have been guided and constrained by misogynistic perspectives on female power.

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Introduction: Sticky bits, or not another theory on Hamlet Part 1: Reading Gertrude 1. Not representing Gertrude 2. The glance, the gaze and Gertrude: minimise or sexualise 3. Resistant reading 4. Using the sticky bits Part 2: Writing Gertrude 5. Shakespeare’s material: the history and the sources 6. Shakespeare’s Gertrude Part 3: Performing a blood royal Gertrude 7. The blood royal Gertrude’s production history 8. Status and silence 9. Performing the sticky bits with power 10. Conclusion: female sovereign power