Enter The Body
Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage
Published on 11. September 2002
240 pages
978-1-134-76779-3 (ISBN)
Description
Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-76779-3 (9781134767793)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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11/2000
1st Edition
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11/2000
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.80
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Person
Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.
Content
List of plates, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Body parts or parts for bodies: speculating on Cordelia, 2 Snatched bodies: Ophelia in the grave, 3 Shadowing Cleopatra: making whiteness strange, 4 Designs on Shakespeare: Troilus's sleeve, Cressida's glove, Helen's placket, 5 Remembering Emilia: gossiping hussies, revolting housewives, Notes, Bibliography, Index
