Shakespeare''s Women - Performance and Conception

Klappentext A study assessing the treatment of women in the plays of Shakespeare, his predecessors and his contemporaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preliminary: the persistence of all-male theatre; Introduction: the significance of the performer; 1. Age and status; 2. Erotic ambience; 3. Stage costume and performer ethos; 4. Male didacticism and female stereotyping; 5. Dramatic empathy and moral ambiguity; 6. Sexual violence; 7. Positive representations of young women; Appendix: female characters in the adult repertory 1500-1614.

Product details

• Authors: David Mann, Mann David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107405929
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40592-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean