Shakespeare Without WomenRoutledge, 11 sep. 2002 - 240 sidor Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation, and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this original and challenging book, Callaghan argues that Shakespeare did not include women, and that his transvestite actors did not represent women, and were not, furthermore, meant to do so. All Shakespeare's actors were, of historical necessity, (white) males which meant that the portrayal of women and racial others posed unique problems for his theatre. What is important, Shakespeare Without Women claims, is not to bemoan the absence of women, Africans, or the Irish, but to determine what such absences meant in their historical context and why they matter today. Callaghan focuses in the implications of absence and exclusion in several of Shakespeare's works: * the exclusion of the female body fromTwelfth Night * the impersonation of the female voice in the original performances of the plays * racial impersonation in Othello * echoes of removal of the Gaelic Irish in The Tempest * the absence of women on stage and in public life as shown in A Midsummer Night's Dream. |
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... problems for his theatre. What is important, Shakespeare Without Women claims, is not to bemoan the absence of women, Africans, or the Irish, but to determine what such absences meant in their historical context and why they matter ...
... problems for his theatre. What is important, Shakespeare Without Women claims, is not to bemoan the absence of women, Africans, or the Irish, but to determine what such absences meant in their historical context and why they matter ...
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... problem of representation in this incident coincides with specific problems attendant upon the dramatic depiction of gender and race. What is significant about the blackamoors in the stage direction from Love's Labour's Lost and ...
... problem of representation in this incident coincides with specific problems attendant upon the dramatic depiction of gender and race. What is significant about the blackamoors in the stage direction from Love's Labour's Lost and ...
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... problem of female impersonation in Shakespeare to focus on wider problems in feminism about what it means to secure cultural and political representation in patriarchy for women and other oppressed groups. One has only to think of ...
... problem of female impersonation in Shakespeare to focus on wider problems in feminism about what it means to secure cultural and political representation in patriarchy for women and other oppressed groups. One has only to think of ...
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... problem remains even in instances of perfect coincidence between any given element of a particular representation and that which it represents. (Even if, for example, the blackamoors in Love's Labour's Lost had been real, they would not ...
... problem remains even in instances of perfect coincidence between any given element of a particular representation and that which it represents. (Even if, for example, the blackamoors in Love's Labour's Lost had been real, they would not ...
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... problems of representation in relation to the hobby-horse. In a memorable passage from Meditations on a Hobby Horse, he asks: How should we address it [the hobby-horse]? Should we describe it as an “image of a horse”?...Luckily there is ...
... problems of representation in relation to the hobby-horse. In a memorable passage from Meditations on a Hobby Horse, he asks: How should we address it [the hobby-horse]? Should we describe it as an “image of a horse”?...Luckily there is ...
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Shakespeare Without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage Dympna Callaghan Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2000 |
Shakespeare Without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage Dympna Callaghan Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2000 |
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