Shakespeare Without Women

By:

Dympna Callaghan

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Accents on Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation, and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this original and challenging book, Callaghan argues that Shakespeare did not include women, and that his transvestite actors did not represent women, and were not, furthermore, meant to do so. All Shakespeare's actors were, of historical necessity, (white) males which meant that the portrayal of women and racial others posed unique problems for his theatre. What is important, Shakespeare Without Women claims, is not to bemoan the absence of women, Africans, or the Irish, but to determine what such absences meant in their historical context and why they matter today. Callaghan focuses in the implications of absence and exclusion in several of Shakespeare's works: the exclusion of the female body from Twelfth Night the impersonation of the female voice in the original performances of the plays racial impersonation in Othello echoes of removal of the Gaelic Irish in The Tempest the absence of women on stage and in public life as shown in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Release date Australia

November 4th, 1999

Author

Dympna Callaghan

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

236

Series

Accents on Shakespeare

Dimensions

140x216x13

ISBN-13

9780415202329

Product ID

1679519

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