Early modern tragedy, gender and performance, 1984-2000 : the destined livery / Roberta Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Roberta.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

English drama (Tragedy).

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Gender identity in the theater.

Sex role in the theater.

Feminism and theater--History--20th century.

Feminism and theater.

Theater--History--20th century.

Theater.

History.

Sex role in motion pictures.

Gender identity in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : the destined livery? : tragedy, performance, subject and spectator

Part I. Realism and reinscription

What we are, but not what we may be : the feminist Ophelia and the (re)production of gender

An actor in the main of all : individual and relational selves in The Duchess of Malfi

The natural father and the imaginary daughter : patriarchy as realism and representation in Titus

Part II. Performance and performativity

"Let me forget myself" : what a queen is good for in Edward II

Death and the married maiden : gender reproduction as destruction in The broken heart

Tricked like a bride : a new traffic in A woman killed with kindness

Conclusion : cultural drag; or, Hamlet and Ophelia redux.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-229) and index.

ISBN:

140399479X

9781403994790

OCLC:

145938938

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