Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage

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Psychology Press, 2001 - 218 pagine

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 'Queen' of Troy.

 

Sommario

Body parts or parts for bodies speculating on Cordelia
1
Snatched bodies Ophelia in the grave
27
Shadowing Cleopatra making whiteness strange
57
Designs on Shakespeare Troiluss sleeve Cressidas glove Helens placket
104
Remembering Emilia gossiping hussies revolting housewives
142
Notes
178
Bibliography
202
Index
212
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Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.

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