Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare''s English History Plays

"Hailey Bachrach reframes female characters' roles in the history plays, overhauling their critical reputations. Combining literary and theatrical analysis, she illuminates how Shakespeare imagined the past."--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Facts disfigured: reading history through female characters; 2. From the margins: reading female characters into history; 3. History as exclusion: Shakespeare's feminine historiography; 4. Blurring the boundaries: effeminacy and feminine history; 5. This is what you came to see; Bibliography.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Hailey Bachrach is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Roehampton. She has previously worked as a researcher for Shakespeare's Globe's 2019 history plays cycle. She is also a freelance drama critic and dramaturg.

Zusammenfassung

Hailey Bachrach reframes female characters' roles in the history plays, overhauling their critical reputations. Combining literary and theatrical analysis, she illuminates how Shakespeare imagined the past. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Vorwort

A bold and interdisciplinary account of female characters' roles in Shakespeare's history plays, combining literary analysis and dramaturgy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hailey Bachrach, Hailey (Roehampton University Bachrach
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009356138
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0935613-8
• Seiten: 280
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; European History, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literature: history and criticism, European history: Renaissance