Shakespeare and Gender in Practice

ISBN-13: 9781137408525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str.

Terri Power

Opis

This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary practice, looking at how it is responding to a new cultural politics of gender and creating a critical language for understanding the performing of gender in the staging of Shakespeare's plays.

Spis treści

Introduction  PART I: IN THEORY  1. Feminist and Queer Theory  PART II: IN PRACTICE  2. Single-Sex Shakespeare Companies: Original Practices  3. Single-Sex Shakespeare Companies: Emerging Companies  4. Gender and Non-traditional Casting  5. Queer and Transgender Performance: Reimaging Gender Through Adaptation and Appropriation  6. Practical Considerations of Gender: The Gender Workshop  PART III: DEBATE AND PROVOCATION 7. A Dialogue with Lisa Wolpe  Annotated Reading List.

O autorze

Terri Power is the Course Director for the MA in Performing Shakespeare at Bath Spa University, Director and Education and Outreach Manager for the Bristol Shakespeare Festival, and serves as a Specialist Performance Advisor for the Global Virtual Theatre Project. She has published and presented several papers on Shakespeare in practice in academic journals and at international conferences. She is also a professional actor on stage and screen and has worked with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the RSC, Universal Studios and Disney, among other companies. She has written, produced and directed performance work including Drag King Richard III and Lear 1864: Trail of Tears.