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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Visible Women and Early Modern Plays | |
Women Editors of Shakespeare Past | |
Womans Role | |
Women Reading Shakespeare | |
Remembering Charlotte Stopes | |
An Interview with Helga Keller | |
Patsy Rodenburg Laurence Olivier | |
Peggy of Anjou | |
Women Playing Hamlet on the Spanish Stage | |
Julia Marlowe and The Taming of | |
The Taming of the Shrew | |
Feminism and Fetishization | |
Female Prosperos and What | |
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