Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance (The Arden Shakespeare) - Hardcover

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9781408185339: Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance (The Arden Shakespeare)

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ISBN 10: 1408185334 ISBN 13: 9781408185339

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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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).

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Women Making Shakespeare draws on a variety of resources to explore the place of women in the Shakespearean text and in Shakespearean reception.

About the Author

Gordon McMullan is Professor of English, King's College London UK
Lena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English, Georgetown University, USA
Virginia Mason Vaughan is Professor of English at Clark University, Worcester, USA.

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