Transforming Shakespeare
Subtitle: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312235093
Subjects: Shakespeare; Theater - History & Criticism; Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections / Feminist Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Textbooks; Literary Criticism
First sentence: I begin with a familiar text, Thomas Heywood's rave review of "our domesticke hystories": What English blood, seeing the person of any bold English man presented and doth not hugge his fame, and hunnye at his at his valor, pursuing him in his enterprise with his best wishes, and as being wrapt in contemplation, offers to him in his hart all prosperous performance, as if the Personator were the man Personated, so bewitching a thing is lively and well spirited action, that it hath power to new mold the harts of the spectators and fashion them to the shape of any noble and notable attempt.