Cross-gender Shakespeare and English national identity
Subtitle: wearing the codpiece
By: Elizabeth Klett.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780230616325
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1950-; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- England; Theater -- Casting -- England; Sex role in the theater; Theater and society -- England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : wearing the codpiece; title: The king's many bodies : Fiona Shaw's Richard II (1995-96); title: Playing with contradictions : Kathryn Hunter's King Lear (1997); title: Gender in exile : Vanessa Redgrave's Prospero in The tempest (2000); title: Staging and subverting nostalgia : Dawn French's Bottom in A midsummer night's dream (2001); title: Vice-versa : all-female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre (2003-04).