Shakespeare and the embodied heroine : staging female characters in the late plays and early adaptations / Lori Leigh.
2014
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Title
Shakespeare and the embodied heroine : staging female characters in the late plays and early adaptations / Lori Leigh.
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description
xiii, 210 pages ; 23 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Palgrave Shakespeare studies
Summary
"Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a dynamic cross-period investigation of Shakespeare's notable female characters from the late plays. Using the Restoration and eighteenth century adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, this book explores female characters from a theatrical point-of-view that includes a close-reading and imagining of the text with a 'directorial eye', performance history, and practical staging experiments. Leigh reveals evidence to question certain conventional interpretations of Shakespeare's heroines and also documents a paradoxical reduction of sexuality and independent agency for Shakespeare's female roles as they started to be played by actresses rather than boy players. Highlighting the manner in which Shakespeare's female characters have the power to question, subvert, and reposition gender boundaries, and illuminating the complexity and multiplicity of the ways the women in Shakespeare's plays express their agency and desire, this book provides fascinating new readings on the staging and reception of Shakespeare's heroines"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note:
List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer's Daughter and Emilia in Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant's The Rivals2. No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare's The Tempest3. 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 Perdita4. Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante's Rape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare's CardenioConclusionBibliographyIndex.
List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer's Daughter and Emilia in Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant's The Rivals2. No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare's The Tempest3. 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 Perdita4. Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante's Rape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare's CardenioConclusionBibliographyIndex.
Series
Palgrave Shakespeare studies.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
PR2991 .L36 2014