Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays
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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-35613-8 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-35613-8 (ISBN)
Hailey Bachrach reframes female characters' roles in the history plays, overhauling their critical reputations. Combining literary and theatrical analysis, she illuminates how Shakespeare imagined the past. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Hailey Bachrach reveals how Shakespeare used female characters in deliberate and consistent ways across his history plays. Illuminating these patterns, she helps us understand these characters not as incidental or marginal presences, but as a key lens through which to understand Shakespeare's process for transforming history into drama. Shakespeare uses female characters to draw deliberate attention to the blurry line between history and fiction onstage, bringing to life the constrained but complex position of women not only in the past itself, but as characters in depictions of said past. In Shakespeare's historical landscape, female characters represent the impossibility of fully recovering voices the record has excluded, and the empowering potential of standing outside history that Shakespeare can only envision by drawing upon the theatre's material conditions. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Hailey Bachrach reveals how Shakespeare used female characters in deliberate and consistent ways across his history plays. Illuminating these patterns, she helps us understand these characters not as incidental or marginal presences, but as a key lens through which to understand Shakespeare's process for transforming history into drama. Shakespeare uses female characters to draw deliberate attention to the blurry line between history and fiction onstage, bringing to life the constrained but complex position of women not only in the past itself, but as characters in depictions of said past. In Shakespeare's historical landscape, female characters represent the impossibility of fully recovering voices the record has excluded, and the empowering potential of standing outside history that Shakespeare can only envision by drawing upon the theatre's material conditions. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Hailey Bachrach is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Roehampton. She has previously worked as a researcher for Shakespeare's Globe's 2019 history plays cycle. She is also a freelance drama critic and dramaturg.
Introduction; 1. Facts disfigured: reading history through female characters; 2. From the margins: reading female characters into history; 3. History as exclusion: Shakespeare's feminine historiography; 4. Blurring the boundaries: effeminacy and feminine history; 5. This is what you came to see; Bibliography.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-35613-5 / 1009356135 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-35613-8 / 9781009356138 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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