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Performing Shakespeare's Women Dr. Paige Martin Reynolds (University of Central Arkansas, USA)

Performing Shakespeare's Women By Dr. Paige Martin Reynolds (University of Central Arkansas, USA)

Performing Shakespeare's Women by Dr. Paige Martin Reynolds (University of Central Arkansas, USA)


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Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead by Dr. Paige Martin Reynolds (University of Central Arkansas, USA)

Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today, dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to 'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today.

About Dr. Paige Martin Reynolds (University of Central Arkansas, USA)

Paige Martin Reynolds is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, USA

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Performing Death and Desire in Othello; 3. Playing Parts in King Lear; 4. Performing the Female Body in Macbeth; 5. Making Love in Hamlet; 6. Making Memory Work in Richard III; 7. Performing Maternity in Romeo and Juliet; Notes Bibliography Index

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NLS9781350170964
9781350170964
1350170968
Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead by Dr. Paige Martin Reynolds (University of Central Arkansas, USA)
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2020-06-25
208
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