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Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. This book shows how performances on stage and film have used the range of Shakespeare's insights in order to re-examin

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.

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver...