Title: Re-dressing the canon
First published: 1997
Description: From Aristophanes to Split Britches, gender and performance have been inextricably linked to the stage. In a wide-ranging series of essays Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship and posits ways in which the self-referential conventions of theatre can reveal the performative element of gender. Analysing both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively, jargon-free prose style, Re-Dressing the Canon finds feminist fissures within the performance conventions of patriarchal drama. Among the dramatic texts considered are those of: * Aristophanes * Ibsen * Yiddish theatre * Mabou Mines * Deborah Warner * Shakespeare * Brecht * Ridiculous Theatre * Split Britches Tony Kushner. Alisa Solomon moves beyond psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated feminist theatre criticism of the last decade, offering a new technique for investigating the relationship between theatre and gender. Re-Dressing the Canon bridges the boundary between theory and practice to make for a highly stimulating volume for theorists, students, contemporary performance-goers and practitioners alike.
Subjects: Art, Drama, History and criticism, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Sex role in literature, Theater, Yiddish, Women in literature, Yiddish Theater, Drama, history and criticism, Theater, Yiddish drama, Théâtre, Histoire et critique, Femmes dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Théâtre yiddish, Théâtre (Genre littéraire), General, Drama--history and criticism, Pn1650.w65 s65 1997, 792/.082/09
LC classification: PN1650.W65 S65 1997