Hamlet’s Hereditary Queen

Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power

Kerrie Roberts

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Routledge
30 December 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Literature: history & criticism; Feminism & feminist theory; Sex & sexuality, sex manuals

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

WHY PUBLISH:

- The author applies over 15 years experience and insights as a theatre practitioner to her argument.

- The book offers a fresh vantage point for a play that has been exhaustively analysed.

- Shakespeare scholarship travels well globally, and so the work will appeal to a broad, international, English-speaking audience.

By: Kerrie Roberts
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781032193144
ISBN 10: 103219314X
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 30 December 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Sticky bits, or not another theory on Hamlet Part 1: Reading Gertrude 1. Not representing Gertrude 2. The glance, the gaze and Gertrude: minimise or sexualise 3. Resistant reading 4. Using the sticky bits Part 2: Writing Gertrude 5. Shakespeare's material: the history and the sources 6. Shakespeare's Gertrude Part 3: Performing a blood royal Gertrude 7. The blood royal Gertrude's production history 8. Status and silence 9. Performing the sticky bits with power 10. Conclusion: female sovereign power

Kerrie Roberts has a background in teaching and in theatre. Hamlet’s Hereditary Queen began in 2007 with performance practice and was later developed through postgraduate study with the help of the University of Sydney’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies. Her website is kroberts.au.