Enter the body : women and representation on Shakespeare's stage /

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'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 inhab...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rutter, Carol Chillington
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Women.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Human body in literature.
Women in literature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Human body in literature
Women in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Body parts or parts for bodies: speculating on Cordelia; Snatched bodies: Ophelia in the grave; Shadowing Cleopatra: making whiteness strange; Designs on Shakespeare: Troilus's sleeve, Cressida's glove, Helen's placket; Remembering Emilia: gossiping hussies, revolting housewives; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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