Performing Shakespeare's women : playing dead / Paige Martin Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Paige, author.

Series:

Arden Shakespeare

The Arden Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Death in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Place of Publication:

[London] : The Arden Shakespeare, 2019.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource (Bloomsbury, viewed September 25, 2020)

ISBN:

9781350002623

1350002623

9781350002609

1350002607

9781350002616

1350002615

OCLC:

1151193354