Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine - L. Leigh

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine

Staging Female Characters in the Late Plays and Early Adaptations

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Buch | Softcover
210 Seiten
2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-49975-5 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Lori Leigh is a Lecturer of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has published in The Quest for Cardenio (2012), The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio (2013), and the journal Shakespeare. She is an award-winning director and has worked on numerous productions of Shakespeare's plays.

List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer's Daughter and Emilia in Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant's The Rivals 2. No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare's The Tempest 3. Silence and Sorcery, Sexuality and Stone: Absent Parts to Understanding Hermione and Paulina in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Garrick's Florizel and Perdita 4. Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante's Rape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare's Cardenio Conclusion Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Zusatzinfo XIII, 210 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte Bibliography • Eighteenth Century • Event • Play • stage • Transformation • Understanding • William Shakespeare
ISBN-10 1-349-49975-7 / 1349499757
ISBN-13 978-1-349-49975-5 / 9781349499755
Zustand Neuware
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