Gender and the Italian Stage: From the Renaissance to the Present Day - Softcover

Günsberg, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521041295 ISBN 13: 9780521041294

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Maggie GÜnsberg explores gender portrayal on the Italian stage, and its shifting relationship with other social categories of class, age and the family from the Renaissance to the present day. She examines both the formal properties of drama and the conventions of drama in performance. An interdisciplinary approach and feminist perspective inform her critique of work by Machiavelli, Ariosto, Goldoni, D'Annunzio and Pirandello. She concludes by assessing the impact of Franca Rame on contemporary Italian theater.

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Review

"Dexterously employing an interdisciplinary approach derived from semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, and dramatic theory (and writing with uncommon verve and lucidity)...the author maintains a skillful balance between analysis of intrinsically theatrical issues (dramatic form, plot convention, etc.) and attention to the socioeconomic context of institutions, writers, performers, and audience. Its broad historical scope and its focus on issues of representation set this useful work apart from both studies of women's authorship and more tightly focused examinations of particular aspects of theatrical tradition." S. Botterill, Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521041295
• ISBN 13: 9780521041294
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288