Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reynolds, Paige,

Titel

Performing Shakespeare's women : playing dead

Ist Teil von

• The Arden Shakespeare

Ort / Verlag

London : Bloomsbury Publishing,

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

• Bloomsbury Drama Online Critical Studies and Performance Practice Annual Update 2020 (UK,AUS,CAN,ROW)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: hunger artists -- Performing death and desire in Othello -- Playing parts in King Lear -- Being the female body in Macbeth -- Making love in Hamlet -- Falling and rising in Richard III -- Dying in Romeo and Juliet.
• "Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today, dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to 'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Also issued in print.