Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and PerformanceGordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, Virginia Mason Vaughan 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
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4 Gender the False Universal and Shakespeares Comedies Hilda L Smith | 35 |
Visible Women and Early Modern Plays David Scott Kastan | 47 |
Women Editors of Shakespeare Past and Present Valerie Wayne | 57 |
Womans Role in the Production of Scholarly Editions o | 69 |
A Preliminary Sketch H R Woudhuysen | 79 |
Shakespeare in the manuscript of Virginia Woolfs To the Lighthouse Rei | 207 |
Performance | 219 |
Othello and the Theatrical Englishwoman 16021660 Clare McManus | 221 |
Gertrude Elliott and the Shakespeare Hut Performances 19161 | 233 |
An Interview with Helga Keller Gordon McMullan | 243 |
Patsy Rodenburg Laurence Olivier and the Women of Richard III Trudi Darb | 253 |
25 Peggy of Anjou Russ McDonald | 263 |
26 Women Playing Hamlet on the Spanish Stage José Manuel González | 273 |
9 Bernice Klimans Enfolded Hamlet John Lavagnino | 89 |
10 Women Making Shakespeare and Middleton and Jonson Suzanne Gossett | 99 |
Reception | 109 |
11 Juliet and the Vicissitudes of Gender Catherine Belsey | 111 |
Angelica Kauffmans Textimages Keir Elam | 121 |
13 Women Reading Witches 18001850 Lucy Munro | 133 |
The Female Shakespeare Fiona Ritchie | 143 |
15 The Girlhood of Mary Cowden Clarke Kate Chedgzoy | 153 |
Helen Faucit Geraldine Jewsbury and the Idealized Shakespeare Lois Potter | 163 |
Mary Dunbar and The Shakespeare Birthday Book Anne Isherwood | 173 |
Women Reading Shakespeare in Montana 18901918 Gretchen E M | 183 |
19 Remembering Charlotte Stopes Kathleen E McLuskie | 195 |
Julia Marlowe and The Taming of the Shrew Elizabeth Schafer | 283 |
Bill Alexanders The Taming of the Shrew Iska Alter | 293 |
The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeares Globe Farah KarimCooper | 303 |
30 MsDirecting Shakespeare at the Globe to Globe Festival 2012 Sonia Massai | 313 |
Feminism and Fetishization in Contemporary King Lear Performance Kevin A | 323 |
32 Not Sycorax Judith Buchanan | 335 |
Female Prosperos and What They Tell Us Virginia Mason Vaugha | 347 |
A poem by John Thompson for Ann Thompson | 357 |
List of contributors | 359 |
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