03524nam 2200865Ia 450 991097378920332120241119164353.01-134-86236-91-134-86237-71-280-33840-704150969520415096960 (pbk.)97866103384050-203-30301-610.4324/9780203200872(CKB)111056485331766(EBL)169570(OCoLC)252812220(SSID)ssj0000070894(PQKBManifestationID)11109600(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070894(PQKBWorkID)10089391(PQKB)10676216(MiAaPQ)EBC169570(Au-PeEL)EBL169570(CaPaEBR)ebr10058399(CaONFJC)MIL33840(OCoLC)1000430583(OCoLC)1045053978(FINmELB)ELB145626(EXLCZ)9911105648533176619931028d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAs she likes it Shakespeare's unruly women /Penny Gay1st ed.London ;New York Routledge1994xii,208pGender in performanceDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-09696-0 0-415-09695-2 0-203-20087-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; TWELFTH NIGHT Desire and its discontents; AS YOU LIKE IT Who's who in the greenwood; THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Avoiding the feminist challenge; MEASURE FOR MEASURE Sex and power in a patriarchal society; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING A kind of merry war; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexAs She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage. Penny Gay takes a fascinating look at the way Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Measure for Measure have been staged over the last half a century, when pGender in performance.Feminism and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryFeminism and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryWomen and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryWomen and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryGender identity in literatureSex role in literatureWomen in literatureComedyFeminism and literatureHistoryFeminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryGender identity in literature.Sex role in literature.Women in literature.Comedy.822.3/3Gay Penny1945-1831629MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973789203321As she likes it4404325UNINA