Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance

McMullan, Gordon (Editor)/ Orlin, Lena (Editor)/ Orlin, Lena Cowen (Editor)/ Vaughan, Virginia Mason (Editor)/ Vaughan, Virginia (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1408185237 / ISBN 13: 9781408185230

Published by Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2014

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256 pages. 7.35x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408185237
• ISBN 13: 9781408185230
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

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).

About the Authors

Gordon McMullan is a professor of English at King's College London, UK.

LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA, Washington DC, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Virginia Mason Vaughan is Professor Emerita and Research Professor at Clark University, USA. She is a leading international expert on The Tempest, and co-editor of the Arden Third Series edition of the play.