Transforming Shakespeare
Subtitle: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780312214722
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Women In Performing Arts; Literary Collections; Plays / Drama; Literary Criticism; Feminist; Shakespeare; 1950-; Dramatic production; Shakespeare, William; Stage history; Drama; Essays; 1564-1616; Adaptations; American literature; English drama; English literature; Film and video adaptations; History and criticism; Shakespeare, William,; Women authors
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.