Enter the body : women and representation on Shakespeare's stage / / Carol Chillington Rutter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962262303321
• Autore: Rutter Carol Chillington
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001
• ISBN: 1-134-76779-X; 9786610319732; 1-134-76780-3; 1-280-31973-9; 0-203-43876-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xxi, 218 p
• Disciplina: 822.3/3
• Soggetti: Human body in literature; Women in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter 1 Body parts or parts for bodies: speculating on Cordelia -- chapter 2 Snatched bodies: Ophelia in the grave -- chapter 3 Shadowing Cleopatra: making whiteness strange -- chapter 4 Designs on Shakespeare: Troilus's sleeve, Cressida's glove, Helen's placket -- chapter 5 Remembering Emilia: gossiping hussies, revolting housewives.
• Sommario/riassunto: Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britain today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.