Shakespeare Without Women
Series: Accents on Shakespeare;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 4 November 1999
- ISBN 9780415202329
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages236 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 385 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays.
Long 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 original and challenging book, Callaghan argues that Shakespeare did not include women, and that his transvestite actors did not represent women, and were not, furthermore, meant to do so. All Shakespeare's actors were, of historical necessity, (white) males which meant that the portrayal 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. Callaghan focuses in the implications of absence and exclusion in several of Shakespeare's works: * the exclusion of the female body fromTwelfth Night * the impersonation of the female voice in the original performances of the plays * racial impersonation in Othello * echoes of removal of the Gaelic Irish in The Tempest * the absence of women on stage and in public life as shown in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Cleopatra had a way with Her 1. And All is Semblatice a Women's Part: Body Politics and Twelfth Night 2. The Castrator's Song: Female Impersonation on the Early Modern Stage 3. 'Othello was a White Man': Properties of Race on Shakespeare's Stage 4. Irish Memories in The Tempest 5. What is an Audience? Bibliography Index
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