Shakespeare and Feminist Performance

Ideology on Stage

Sarah Werner

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Routledge
12 July 2001

Performance art; Theatre management; Shakespeare plays; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Accents on Shakespeare

In this controversial book, Sarah Werner argues

that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many

factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on

The Royal Shakespeare Company , and in particular: the influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg the history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare and Feminist Performance demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help anyone interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.

By: Sarah Werner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9780415227308
ISBN 10: 0415227305
Series: Accents on Shakespeare
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 12 July 2001
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Chapter 1 The ideologies of acting and the performance of women; Chapter 2 Punching Daddy, or the politics of company politics; Chapter 3 The Taming of the Shrew; Epilogue Epilogue;

Sarah Werner

Reviews for Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage

I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new Accents on Shakespeare volumes in the new series edited by Terence Hawkes and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism. -Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Accents on Shakespeare is shaping up as everything a streetwise series of books on the Bard should be: engaged, imaginative, heretical and occasionally outrageous. No one who aims to have their finger on the pulse of Shakespeare studies can afford to ignore it. -Kiernan Ryan Professor of English, Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge