Shakespeare without women : representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage / Dympna Callaghan...
Shakespeare without women : representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage / Dympna Callaghan...
Shakespeare without women : representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage / Dympna Callaghan.
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Date
2000.
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Cleopatra had a way with her -- 1. "And all is semblative a woman'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 T...
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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England
Date Published
2000.
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Summary
"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...
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Shakespeare without women : representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage / Dympna Callaghan.
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Accents on Shakespeare.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-209) and index.
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74VvoNLrBGzd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvoNLrBGzd
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ISBN
0415202329(pbk.) :
9780415202312 (alk. paper)
0415202310 (alk. paper)
9780415202329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415202329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415202312(cased) :
0415202310(cased) :
9780415202329(pbk.) :
DDC
822.33
MMS ID
991013304979702626
