Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine: Staging Female Characters in the Late Plays and Early Adaptations

ISBN-13: 9781349499755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 210 str.

L Leigh

Opis

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer's Daughter and Emilia in Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant's The Rivals 2. No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare's The Tempest 3. Silence and Sorcery, Sexuality and Stone: Absent Parts to Understanding Hermione and Paulina in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Garrick's Florizel and Perdita 4. Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante's Rape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare's Cardenio Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Lori Leigh is a Lecturer of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has published in The Quest for Cardenio (2012), The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio (2013), and the journal Shakespeare. She is an award-winning director and has worked on numerous productions of Shakespeare's plays.