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Enter The Body

Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage

Carol Chillington Rutter author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

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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.

ISBN: 9780415141635

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 385g

240 pages