Gender and performance in Shakespeare's problem comedies /
"Composed at a critical moment in English history, Shakespeare's "problem plays"--All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida - dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of fema...
| Основен автор: | McCandless, David Foley. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
℗♭1997.
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| Серия: |
Drama and performance studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Gender and performance in Shakespeare's problem comedies. |
Съдържание:
- 1. Introduction: All's Well That Ends Well
- Helena's Femininity: Subject vs. Object
- Bertram's Masculinity: Rite of Passage
- Drama of Difference: Old and New Tales Staging the Bed-Trick
- 2. Final Scenes: Unresolved Tension
- Measure for Measure
- The Duke as Ghostly Father
- Angelo's Sadism: Punishing Claudio
- Speechless Dialect: Isabella's (Lacking) Sexuality
- Angelo's Sadomasochistic Fantasy: Propositioning Isabella
- Isabella's Sadomasochism Gestic Staging
- The Duke's Sadomasochistic Spectacle
- Final Moments: "What Do You Think This Is?"
- 3. Troilus and Cressida The War as Empty Spectacle
- Troilus and Cressida: The Limits of Sexuality
- Seduction
- The Limits of Subjectivity Feminist Gestus
- Between Men: The Homoerotics of War Final Scenes.