Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage

by Carol Ch Rutter and Carol Chillington Rutter

Book Overview

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415141648
• ISBN13: 9780415141642
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"