Cross-cultural performances : differences in women's re-visions of Shakespeare / edited by Marianne Novy.

Other author Novy, Marianne, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1993.
Description274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations. --History and criticism.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters. --Women.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.
Literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Authorship--Sex differences.
Feminism and literature.
Women in the theater.
Feminism and theater.
Women and literature.

Contents Transmuting Othello: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Margaret Ferguson -- Helen Faucit and Shakespeare: womanly theater / Julie Hankey -- Gertrude's Ghost tells her story: Lillie Wyman's Gertrude of Denmark / Martha Tuck Rozett -- Rough magic: Isak Dinesen's re-visions of the Tempest / Judith Lee -- Shakespeare at the fun palace: Joan Littlewood / Dympna Callaghan -- Stratford revisited: a legacy of the Sixties / Margaret Drabble -- Toni Morrison's Tar baby: re-figuring the Colonizer's aesthetcs / Malin Lavon Walther -- Rainbows of darkness: deconstructing Shakespeare in the work of Gloria Naylor and Zora Neale Hurston / Valerie Traub -- Sister letters: Miranda's Tempest in Canada / Diana Brydon -- Women and theatrical authority: Deborah Warner's Titus Andronicus / Joyce Green MacDonald -- Women's alternative Shakespeares and women's alternatives to Shakespeare in contemporary British theater / Lizbeth Goodman -- Hamlet in Mizoram / Ania Loomba -- Afterword: "Trying not to forget" / Peter Erickson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92044535
ISBN0252020170 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0252063236 (pb. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR2880.A1 C76 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold