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

Portada
Psychology Press, 2001 - 218 pàgines

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.

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speculating
1
Ophelia in the grave
27
making whiteness strange
57
gossiping hussies
142
Notes
178
Bibliography
202
Copyright

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Sobre l'autor (2001)

Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.

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