Title: Shakespeare without women
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: History, Theater, Characters, Casting, Blacks in literature, Stage history, Africans in literature, Feminism and theater, Africans, Political and social views, Female impersonators, Theater and society, Women, Women in literature, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, political and social views, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, characters, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, stage history, Theater, great britain, history, Black people in literature, Feminism and literature, Fürstliches Schauspielhaus
Places: England
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: To 1625, 17th century, 16th century
LC classification: PR2991 .C337 2000