Shakespeare Without Women
Series: Accents on Shakespeare; Accents on Shakespeare
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780203457726
Subjects: Characters; Women; Africans; Stage history; Theater; Casting; History; Feminism and theater; Female impersonators; Rheater and society; Africans in literature; Black people in literature; Women in literature; William Shakespeare; 16th centu; Théâtre; Distribution artistique; Histoire; Féminisme et théâtre; Acteurs travestis; Africains dans la littérature; Personnes noires dans la littérature; Femmes dans la littérature
Description: Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; General editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cleopatra had a way with her; ~And all is semblative a woman's part~: Body politics and Twelfth Night; The castrator's song: Female impersonation on the early modern stage; ~Othello was a white man~: Properties of race on Shakespeare's stage; Irish memories in The Tempest; What is an audience?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.