1st Edition

Enter The Body Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage

By Carol Chillington Rutter Copyright 2001
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
List of plates, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Body parts or parts for bodies: speculating on Cordelia, 2 Snatched bodies: Ophelia in the grave, 3 Shadowing Cleopatra: making whiteness strange, 4 Designs on Shakespeare: Troilus’s sleeve, Cressida’s glove, Helen’s placket, 5 Remembering Emilia: gossiping hussies, revolting housewives, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.