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Shakespeare and Child's Play
Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen
Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he put sons against fathers, servants against masters, innocence against experience, testing the notion of masculinity, manners, morals,...
Published November 6th 2007 by Routledge
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Enter The Body
Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage
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...
Published November 22nd 2000 by Routledge