Women Making Shakespeare
Text, Reception and Performance
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Women Making Shakespeare
Text, Reception and Performance
About This Book
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).
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- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part One: Text
- 1âEdward III: Women and the Making of Shakespeare as Historical DramatistâJean E. Howard
- 2âBeguiling FictionsâDympna Callaghan
- 3ââBride-habited, but maiden-heartedâ: Language and Gender in The Two Noble KinsmenâHannah Crawforth
- 4âGender, the False Universal and Shakespeareâs ComediesâHilda L. Smith
- 5âIn Plain Sight: Visible Women and Early Modern PlaysâDavid Scott Kastan
- 6âRemaking the Texts: Women Editors of Shakespeare, Past and PresentâValerie Wayne
- 7ââTo be acknowledged, madam, is oâerpaidâ: Womanâs Role in the Production of Scholarly Editions of ShakespeareâNeil Taylor
- 8âSome Women Editors of Shakespeare: A Preliminary SketchâH. R. Woudhuysen
- 9âBernice Klimanâs Enfolded HamletâJohn Lavagnino
- 10âWomen Making Shakespeare â and Middleton and JonsonâSuzanne Gossett
- Part Two: Reception
- 11âJuliet and the Vicissitudes of GenderâCatherine Belsey
- 12âWomen Painting Shakespeare: Angelica Kauffmanâs Text-imagesâKeir Elam
- 13âWomen Reading Witches, 1800â1850âLucy Munro
- 14âJoanna Baillie: The Female ShakespeareâFiona Ritchie
- 15âThe Girlhood of Mary Cowden ClarkeâKate Chedgzoy
- 16ââA Sacred Trustâ: Helen Faucit, Geraldine Jewsbury, and the Idealized ShakespeareâLois Potter
- 17âInvisible Women: Mary Dunbar and The Shakespeare Birthday BookâAnne Isherwood
- 18ââA marvelous convenient placeâ: Women Reading Shakespeare in Montana, 1890â1918âGretchen E. Minton
- 19âRemembering Charlotte StopesâKathleen E. McLuskie
- 20ââOr was it Shâpâre?â: Shakespeare in the manuscript of Virginia Woolfâs To the LighthouseâReiko Oya
- Part Three: Performance
- 21âThe Vere Street Desdemona: Othello and the Theatrical Englishwoman, 1602â1660âClare McManus
- 22âLady Forbes-Robertsonâs War Work: Gertrude Elliott and the Shakespeare Hut Performances, 1916â1919âAilsa Grant Ferguson
- 23âEditing Olivierâs Hamlet: An Interview with Helga KellerâGordon McMullan
- 24âTrusting the Words: Patsy Rodenburg, Laurence Olivier and the Women of Richard IIIâTrudi Darby
- 25âPeggy of AnjouâRuss McDonald
- 26âWomen Playing Hamlet on the Spanish StageâJosĂ© Manuel GonzĂĄlez
- 27âRe-making Katherina: Julia Marlowe and The Taming of the ShrewâElizabeth Schafer
- 28âClass, Identity, and Comic Choice: Bill Alexanderâs The Taming of the ShrewâIska Alter
- 29âRe-creating Katherina: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeareâs GlobeâFarah Karim-Cooper
- 30âMs-Directing Shakespeare at the Globe to Globe Festival, 2012âSonia Massai
- 31âSexing up Goneril: Feminism and Fetishization in Contemporary King Lear PerformanceâKevin A. Quarmby
- 32âNot SycoraxâJudith Buchanan
- 33ââMiranda, whereâs your mother?â: Female Prosperos and What They Tell UsâVirginia Mason Vaughan
- 34âJoseph Cornell: A poem by John Thompson for Ann Thompson
- List of contributors
- Index
- Copyright