Women making Shakespeare : text, reception, performance / edited by Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McMullan, Gordon, 1962- editor.

Orlin, Lena Cowen, editor.

Vaughan, Virginia Mason, editor.

Series:

Arden Shakespeare (Critical studies) Women Making Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.

Shakespeare, William.

Feminist literary criticism.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. The book highlights the essential role Shakespeare's texts have played in the historical development of feminism. Rather than a traditional collection of essays, Women Making Shakespeare brings together materials from diverse resources and uses diverse research methods to create something new and transformative. Among the many women's interactions with Shakespeare to be considered are acting (whether on the professional stage, in film, on lecture tours, or in staged readings), editing, teaching, academic writing, and recycling through adaptations and appropriations (film, novels, poems, plays, visual arts).

Contents:

Part One: Text

1 Edward III: Women and the Making of Shakespeare as Historical Dramatist Jean E. Howard

2 Beguiling Fictions Dympna Callaghan

3 'Bride-habited, but maiden-hearted': Language and Gender in The Two Noble Kinsmen Hannah Crawforth

4 Gender, the False Universal and Shakespeare's Comedies Hilda L. Smith

5 In Plain Sight: Visible Women and Early Modern Plays David Scott Kastan

6 Remaking the Texts: Women Editors of Shakespeare, Past and Present Valerie Wayne

7 'To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid': Woman's Role in the Production of Scholarly Editions of Shakespeare Neil Taylor

8 Some Women Editors of Shakespeare: A Preliminary Sketch H. R. Woudhuysen

9 Bernice Kliman's Enfolded Hamlet John Lavagnino

10 Women Making Shakespeare - and Middleton and Jonson Suzanne Gossett

Part Two: Reception

11 Juliet and the Vicissitudes of Gender Catherine Belsey

12 Women Painting Shakespeare: Angelica Kauffman's Text-images Keir Elam

13 Women Reading Witches, 1800-1850 Lucy Munro

14 Joanna Baillie: The Female Shakespeare Fiona Ritchie

15 The Girlhood of Mary Cowden Clarke Kate Chedgzoy

16 'A Sacred Trust': Helen Faucit, Geraldine Jewsbury, and the Idealized Shakespeare Lois Potter

17 Invisible Women: Mary Dunbar and The Shakespeare Birthday Book Anne Isherwood

18 'A marvelous convenient place': Women Reading Shakespeare in Montana, 1890-1918 Gretchen E. Minton

19 Remembering Charlotte Stopes Kathleen E. McLuskie

20 'Or was it Sh

p

re?': Shakespeare in the manuscript of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Reiko Oya

Part Three: Performance

21 The Vere Street Desdemona: Othello and the Theatrical Englishwoman, 1602-1660 Clare McManus

22 Lady Forbes-Robertson's War Work: Gertrude Elliott and the Shakespeare Hut Performances, 1916-1919 Ailsa Grant Ferguson

23 Editing Olivier's Hamlet: An Interview with Helga Keller Gordon McMullan

24 Trusting the Words: Patsy Rodenburg, Laurence Olivier and the Women of Richard III Trudi Darby

25 Peggy of Anjou Russ McDonald

26 Women Playing Hamlet on the Spanish Stage José Manuel González

27 Re-making Katherina: Julia Marlowe and The Taming of the Shrew Elizabeth Schafer

28 Class, Identity, and Comic Choice: Bill Alexander's The Taming of the Shrew Iska Alter

29 Re-creating Katherina: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare's Globe Farah Karim-Cooper

30 Ms-Directing Shakespeare at the Globe to Globe Festival, 2012 Sonia Massai

31 Sexing up Goneril: Feminism and Fetishization in Contemporary King Lear Performance Kevin A. Quarmby

32 Not Sycorax Judith Buchanan

33 'Miranda, where's your mother?': Female Prosperos and What They Tell Us Virginia Mason Vaughan

34 Joseph Cornell: A poem by John Thompson for Ann Thompson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781472539373

1472539370

9781472539380

1472539389

OCLC:

1201426846