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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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Table of Contents:
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  • 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.