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Shakespeare and gender in practice /

"This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary practice, looking at how it is responding to a new cultural politics of gender and creating a critical language for understanding the performing of g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Power, Terri
Format: Printed Book
Published: UK; Palgrave Macmillan Publications: 2016.
Series:Shakespeare in practice
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300 |a  192p. 
490 0 |a Shakespeare in practice 
500 |a Includes index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: IN THEORY -- 1. Feminist and Queer Theory -- PART II: IN PRACTICE -- 2. Single-Sex Shakespeare Companies: Original Practices -- 3. Single-Sex Shakespeare Companies: Emerging Companies -- 4. Gender and Non-traditional Casting -- 5. Queer and Transgender Performance: Reimaging Gender Through Adaptation and Appropriation -- 6. Practical Considerations of Gender: The Gender Workshop -- PART III: DEBATE AND PROVOCATION -- 7. A Dialogue with Lisa Wolpe -- Annotated Reading List. 
520 |a "This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary practice, looking at how it is responding to a new cultural politics of gender and creating a critical language for understanding the performing of gender in the staging of Shakespeare's plays"-- 
650 0 |a Gender identity in the theater. 
650 0 |a Sex role in the theater. 
650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. 
650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. 
650 7 |a PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General. 
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