Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine [electronic resource] : Staging Female Characters in the Late Plays and Early Adaptations /
Leigh, L.author.
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer's Daughter and Emiliain Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant's The Rivals; Introduction: women's parts in The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Rivals; The Jailer's Daughter in The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Rivals; Emilia's ""female world"" and desire; 2 No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden andDavenant's The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare's The Tempest; Introduction: female roles in The Enchanted Island and The Tempest
""Miranda! where's your sister?"": Miranda and Dorinda""I must confess, I was inform'd I am a man"": Hippolito and Miranda; 3 Silence and Sorcery, Sexuality and Stone: Absent Partsto Understanding Hermione and Paulina in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Garrick's Florizel and Perdita; Introduction: The Winter's Tale adapted and women's roles on Garrick's stage; ""Tongue-tied, our queen?"": The presence and absence of Hermione; ""Got big tits you're a witch / Fall to bits you're a witch"": Paulina's paranormal powers
4 Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante'sRape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare's CardenioIntroduction: a lost text; Violante: a lost woman; Conclusion; Appendix: The Plays in Performance; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Poetry.
British literature.
Performing arts.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Performing Arts.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.