performance and conception
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mann, David
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- toneel, actrices, sekse, stereotypering, travestie, seksisme, seksueel geweld, homoseksualiteit, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw
- Description
- In this book Mann examines the influence of the Elizabethan cross-dressed tradition on the performance and conception of Shakespeare's female roles through an analysis of all 205 extant plays written for the adult theatre. The author shows how Shakespeare exploited the cross-dressed convention as a dramatic medium. He discusses modern critisism of Shakespeare's work, including feminist criticism. The subjects covered in the book are: the age and status of the performers: the erotic ambience (and the charge of homosexuality) in the plays: stage costume and performer ethos: male didacticism and female stereotyping: dramatic empathy and moral ambiguity: sexual violence: and positive representations of young women.