Enter The Body
Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage
By Carol Chillington Rutter
Published November 23rd 2000 by Routledge – 240 pages
Description
Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.
Author Bio
Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.
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Name: Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By Carol Chillington Rutter. Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive...
Categories: Theatre & Performance Studies, Shakespeare, Gender & Sexuality
