Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's StagePsychology Press, 2001 - 218 pages Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy. |
Contents
Body parts or parts for bodies speculating on Cordelia | 1 |
Snatched bodies Ophelia in the grave | 27 |
Shadowing Cleopatra making whiteness strange | 57 |
Designs on Shakespeare Troiluss sleeve Cressidas glove Helens placket | 104 |
Remembering Emilia gossiping hussies revolting housewives | 142 |
Notes | 178 |
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Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage Carol Chillington Rutter Limited preview - 2002 |
Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage Carol Chillington Rutter Limited preview - 2001 |
Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage Carol Chillington Rutter Limited preview - 2002 |
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