Shakespeare and Feminist Theory

Shakespeare and Feminist Theory
Title Shakespeare and Feminist Theory PDF eBook
Author Marianne Novy
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 152
Release 2017-09-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1472567080

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Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of desire, what marriage means and how much women can remake it, how women can use and expand their culture's ideas of motherhood and of women's work, and how women can have power through language. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and Feminist Performance

Shakespeare and Feminist Performance
Title Shakespeare and Feminist Performance PDF eBook
Author Sarah Werner
Publisher Routledge
Pages 146
Release 2005-07-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1134588038

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How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays? In this controversial new book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, Werner demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. Werner concentrates particularly on: The influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg The history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew She reveals that no performance of Shakespeare is able to bring the plays to life or to realise the playwright's intentions without shaping them to mirror our own assumptions. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help all interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare
Title A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Dympna Callaghan
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 581
Release 2016-05-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1118501268

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The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day

Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism

Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism
Title Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism PDF eBook
Author Philip C. Kolin
Publisher Scholarly Title
Pages 440
Release 1991
Genre Drama
ISBN

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Roman Shakespeare

Roman Shakespeare
Title Roman Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Coppélia Kahn
Publisher Routledge
Pages 200
Release 2013-04-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 113493761X

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In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppélia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'. Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective. Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and those interested in feminist theory, as well as classicists.

Shakespeare's Sisters

Shakespeare's Sisters
Title Shakespeare's Sisters PDF eBook
Author Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 370
Release 1979
Genre American literature
ISBN 9780253112583

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Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies
Title Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies PDF eBook
Author David F. McCandless
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 226
Release 1997-12-22
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780253113344

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"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.