L. Leigh

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine

Staging Female Characters in the Late Plays and Early Adaptations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-46598-6
• 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9781137465986
• ISBN-10: 1137465980
• Artikelnr.: 41196365

Autorenporträt

Lori Leigh is a Lecturer of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has published in The Quest for Cardenio (2012), The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio (2013), and the journal Shakespeare. She is an award-winning director and has worked on numerous productions of Shakespeare's plays.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer's Daughter and Emilia in Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant's The Rivals 2. No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare's The Tempest 3. Silence and Sorcery, Sexuality and Stone: Absent Parts to Understanding Hermione and Paulina in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Garrick's Florizel and Perdita 4. Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante's Rape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare's Cardenio Conclusion Bibliography Index