Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood

Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood PDF Author: George William Gerwig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494060169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood

Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood PDF Author: George William Gerwig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494060169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood

Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood PDF Author: George William Gerwig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood: Hermione

Shakespeare's Ideals of Womanhood: Hermione PDF Author: George William Gerwig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Women Making Shakespeare

Women Making Shakespeare PDF Author: Gordon McMullan
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472539389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. The book highlights the essential role Shakespeare's texts have played in the historical development of feminism. Rather than a traditional collection of essays, Women Making Shakespeare brings together materials from diverse resources and uses diverse research methods to create something new and transformative. Among the many women's interactions with Shakespeare to be considered are acting (whether on the professional stage, in film, on lecture tours, or in staged readings), editing, teaching, academic writing, and recycling through adaptations and appropriations (film, novels, poems, plays, visual arts).

Othello

Othello PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780774711029
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Virtuous Necessity

Virtuous Necessity PDF Author: Jessica Murphy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England

Shakespeare's Women

Shakespeare's Women PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Serves both as a script for performance and as a text for high school and college theater and English classes. This self-contained script brings together different scenes from Shake­speare's plays to portray women "in all their infinite variety." Two narrators, a man and a woman, introduce and com­ment on these scenes, weaving together the different characters and situations. This book combines literary and theat­rical techniques in examining Shake­speare's women. Its promptbook format provides clear, helpful stage directions on pages facing each of the scenes. Also help­ful are concise glosses and footnotes to define difficult words and phrases plus a commentary to explain each scene in its dramatic context. Other features include sheet music for each song in the play, a bibliography on the topic of women in Shakespeare's plays, and suggestions for directors who wish to stage the play.

Women of Will

Women of Will PDF Author: Tina Packer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745341
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more interesting, beginning with Joan of Arc. Then, with the extraordinary Juliet, there is a dramatic shift: suddenly Shakespeare’s women have depth, motivation, and understanding of life more than equal to that of the men. As Shakespeare ceases to write women as predictable caricatures and starts writing them from the inside, his women become as dimensional, spirited, spiritual, active, and sexual as any of his male characters. Wondering if Shakespeare had fallen in love (Packer considers with whom, and what she may have been like), the author observes that from Juliet on, Shakespeare’s characters demonstrate that when women and men are equal in status and passion, they can—and do—change the world.

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own PDF Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180949509
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

Shakespeare Without Women

Shakespeare Without Women PDF Author: Dympna Callaghan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134633122
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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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.