Shakespeare without women
Subtitle: representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage
By: Dympna Callaghan.
Series: Accents on Shakespeare
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Africans.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.; Theater -- England -- Casting -- History -- 16th century.; Theater -- England -- Casting -- History -- 17th century.; Feminism and theater -- England -- History.; Female impersonators -- England -- History.; Theater and society -- England -- History.; Africans in literature.; Blacks in literature.; Women in literature.
Description: "Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this book, Callaghan argues that all Shakespeare's actors were, of historical necessity, (white) males which meant that the portayal of women and racial others posed unique problems for his theatre. What is important, Shakespeare Without Women claims, is not to bemoan the absence of women, Africans, or the Irish, but to determine what such absences meant in their historical context and why they matter today."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-209) and index.