Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies write by David F. McCandless. This book was released on 1997-12-22. Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.
The (Mis?)-Representation of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies
The (Mis?)-Representation of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The (Mis?)-Representation of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies write by Natascha Haas. This book was released on 2004-07-18. The (Mis?)-Representation of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5 (A), University of Heidelberg (Anglistics), course: Proseminar II: 'Comedies in Shakespeare's Time', language: English, abstract: Compared to other writers of his time, Shakespeare introduced an extraordinary amount of deep female characters in his plays. Because Shakespeare lived in a time when men played the major part in society and the role of women was basically limited to the household, one could easily come to the opinion that he was a reformer whose views were ahead of the Elizabethan times 1 . But is this really true? Does Shakespeare criticize the society he lives in by creating these characters, or do they just serve their purpose to make the plays more dramatic? In this paper, I will first give an overview of the role of women in the Elizabethan age and society. After that I will analyse the female characters of three plays we discussed in the course in order to find out if Shakespeare’s views on women diverged from the general view of his time.
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage write by Amy Kenny. This book was released on 2019-01-21. Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, polluting, and susceptible to their environment. This book draws on early modern medical texts to provocatively demonstrate how Shakespeare’s canon offers a unique agency to female characters via humoral discourse of the womb. Chapters discuss early modern medicine’s attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception, alongside passages of Shakespeare’s plays to offer a fresh reading of (geo)humoral subjectivity. The book shows how Shakespeare subversively challenges contemporary notions of female fluidity by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and autonomy for female characters across his canon.
Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation
Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation write by Margaret Jane Kidnie. This book was released on 2009. Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kidnie brings current debates in performance criticism in contact with recent developments in textual studies to explore what it is that distinguishes Shakespearean work from its apparent other, the adaptation.
Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists
Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists write by A. Hiscock. This book was released on 2007-07-02. Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare. It shows both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical of its period and of the ways in which it is distinctive, by looking at Shakespeare and other writers who influenced and developed the genres in which he worked.
