Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Author: Sarah Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1108842194

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An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.


Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Author: Sarah Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1108901697

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This book analyses the cultural and theatrical intersections of early modern temporal concepts and gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, across the genres of domestic comedy, city comedy and revenge tragedy, Sarah Lewis shows how temporal tropes are used to delineate masculinity and femininity on the early modern stage, and vice versa. She sets out the ways in which the temporal constructs of patience, prodigality and revenge, as well as the dramatic identities that are built from those constructs, and the experience of playgoing itself, negotiate a fraught opposition between action in the moment and delay in the duration. This book argues that looking at time through the lens of gender, and gender through the lens of time, is crucial if we are to develop our understanding of the early modern cultural construction of both.


The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

Author: Stanley Wells

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-30

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780521797115

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This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.


Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Author: Mary Floyd-Wilson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-11

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1107276845

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Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.


The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Margreta de Grazia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-04-05

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1139825984

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This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.


The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

Author: Deborah Payne Fisk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780521588126

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Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.


Shakespeare and Sexuality

Shakespeare and Sexuality

Author: Catherine M. S. Alexander

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-09-20

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780521804752

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This book draws together ten important essays which explore the significance of sexuality in Shakespeare's work.


The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

Author: Alexander Leggatt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521779425

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An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.


Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Author: Shirley Nelson Garner

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1996-02-22

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780253210272

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While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.