1st Edition

Shakespeare and Feminist Performance Ideology on Stage

By Sarah Werner Copyright 2002
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays? In this controversial new book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, Werner demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The ideologies of acting and the performance of women; Chapter 2 Punching Daddy, or the politics of company politics; Chapter 3 The Taming of the Shrew; Epilogue Epilogue;

Biography

Sarah Werner