Shakespeare And Gender

Author : Kate Aughterson,Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474290005

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Shakespeare and Gender by Kate Aughterson,Ailsa Grant Ferguson Pdf

Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in- hand with diverse contextual materials, the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue to read and perform them with this in mind. Topics and themes discussed include gendering madness, paternity and the patriarchy, sexuality, anxious masculinity, maternal bodies, gender transgression, and kingship and the male body politic.

Author : Shirley Nelson Garner,Madelon Sprengnether
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0253210275

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender by Shirley Nelson Garner,Madelon Sprengnether Pdf

While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.

Author : James W. Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136979057

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Crossing Gender in Shakespeare by James W. Stone Pdf

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his critics. Issues addressed range from the cross dressing of Viola and Imogen to the cross gartering of Malvolio, the sound of "un" and the uncanny lyric narcissism of Richard II, Hamlet’s misogyny, androgyny, and the poison of marital/political "union," Othello’s fears of impotence, rumors of Antony’s emasculation versus the militant yet nurturing triumphalism of Cleopatra’s suicide, and Posthumus’s hysterical reaction to the "woman’s part" in himself and his compensatory fantasies of parthenogenesis. Stone unpacks ideologically powerful but unsustainable male claims to self-identity and sameness, set over against man’s type-gendering of women as the origin of divisive sexual difference, discord, and the dissolution of marriage. Men who blame women for the difference that divides and weakens their sense of unity and sameness to oneself are unconscious that the uncanny feminine is not outside the masculine, its reassuring canny opposite; it is inside the masculine, its uncanny difference from itself.

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521804752

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Shakespeare and Sexuality by Catherine M. S. Alexander,Stanley Wells Pdf

This book draws together ten important essays which explore the significance of sexuality in Shakespeare's work.

Author : Margreta de Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521658810

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta de Grazia,Stanley Wells Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.

Author : Sarah Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108842198

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Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage by Sarah Lewis Pdf

An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.

Author : Kate Chedgzoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350310261

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Shakespeare, Feminism and Gender by Kate Chedgzoy Pdf

Over the last quarter-century, feminist criticism of Shakespeare has greatly expanded and enriched the range of interpretations of the Shakespearean texts, their original historical location, and subsequent reinterpretation. Characteristically it weaves between past and present, driven by a commitment both to intervene in contemporary cultural politics and to recover a fuller sense of the sexual politics of the literary heritage. Collecting together essays which offer detailed accounts of particular plays with others that take a broader overview of the field, this Casebook showcases the range of critical strategies used by feminist criticism, and illustrates how vital attention to the politics of gender and sexuality is to a full understanding and appreciation of Shakespearean drama.

Author : Marguerite A. Tassi
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781575911311

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Women and Revenge in Shakespeare by Marguerite A. Tassi Pdf

Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare's women and finds bold answers to questions such as these. A surprising number of Shakespeare's female characters respond to moral outrages by expressing a strong desire for vengeance. This book's analysis of these characters and their circumstances offers incisive critical perceptions of feminine anger, ethics, and agency and challenges our assumptions about the role of gender in revenge. In this provocative book, Marguerite A. Tassi counters longstanding critical opinions on revenge: that it is the sole province of men in Western literature and culture, that it is a barbaric, morally depraved, irrational instinct, and that it is antithetical to justice. Countless examples have been mined from Shakespeare's dramas to reveal women's profound concerns with revenge and justice, honor and shame, crime and punishment. In placing the critical focus on avenging women, this book significantly redresses a gender imbalance in scholarly treatments of revenge, particularly in early modern literature.

Author : Stephen Orge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815329628

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Shakespeare by Stephen Orge Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003252636

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A Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : E. Klett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230622609

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Cross-Gender Shakespeare and English National Identity by E. Klett Pdf

This book examines contemporary female portrayals of male Shakespearean roles and shows how these performances invite audiences to think differently about Shakespeare, the English nation, and themselves.

Author : Sharon Keefe Ugalde
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786835994

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Ophelia by Sharon Keefe Ugalde Pdf

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts – from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet, through depictions by seminal authors such as Espronceda, Bécquer and Lorca, to turn-of-the millennium figurations. This provocative, gendered figure has become what both male and female artists need her to be – is she invisible, a victim, mad, controlled by the masculine gaze, or is she an agent of her own identity? This well-documented study addresses these questions in the context of Iberia, whose poets, novelists and dramatists writing in Spanish, Catalan and Galician, as well as painters and photographers, have brought Shakespeare’s heroine to life in new guises. Ophelia performs as an authoritative female author, as new perspectives reflect and authorise the gender diversity that has gained legitimacy in Spanish society since the political Transition.

Author : Linda Bamber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780804765695

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Comic Women, Tragic Men by Linda Bamber Pdf

This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0838641148

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Shakespeare Re-dressed by James C. Bulman Pdf

"This collection covers a wide range of Shakespeare productions, from Granville Barker and Poel's experiments with cross-gender casting to recent performances by Cheek by Jowl, the National Theatre, and the new Globe; from early twentieth-century performances by women's companies in England and Japan to contemporary stagings by the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company; from Mabou Mines' controversial Lear in New York to a more subtly transgressive Tempest by the Georgia Shakespeare Festival." "These essays are comprehensive in their consideration of cross-gender-cast Shakespeare as it evolved over the past century. Theoretically informed yet grounded in the particularity of individual performances, they forge new connections between performance studies and gender theory and broach issues vital to anyone interested in Shakespeare."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David F. McCandless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253113342

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Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies by David F. McCandless Pdf

"This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.