Shakespeare and the Shrew - Performing the Defiant Female Voice

Informationen zum Autor ANNA KAMARALLI is a Teaching Fellow on the Theatre programme in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her articles have appeared in Shakespeare Survey and Shakespeare Bulletin. Klappentext An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's bravest, wisest and most vivid creations. Zusammenfassung An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women! but are among Shakespeare's bravest! wisest and most vivid creations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 'Shrewd tempters with their tongues': Historic Shrews Constance, Kate Percy, Jeanne la Pucelle, Margaret d'Anjou 'My tongue will tell the anger of my heart': Comic Shrews Adriana, Katherine, Beatrice 'Well she can persuade': Shrews Post-Comedy The Tragedies: Goneril, Emilia The not-quite Tragedies: Isabella, Marina, Paulina Conclusion 'Let her speak too' Index

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 'Shrewd tempters with their tongues': Historic Shrews Constance, Kate Percy, Jeanne la Pucelle, Margaret d'Anjou 'My tongue will tell the anger of my heart': Comic Shrews Adriana, Katherine, Beatrice 'Well she can persuade': Shrews Post-Comedy The Tragedies: Goneril, Emilia The not-quite Tragedies: Isabella, Marina, Paulina Conclusion 'Let her speak too' Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A Kamaralli, A. Kamaralli, Anna Kamaralli, Kamaralli Anna
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9780230348097
• ISBN: 978-0-230-34809-7
• Seiten: 261
• Serien: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies; Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; B, Poetry, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, comedy;humour;performance;tragedy;William Shakespeare;women