Re-dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and GenderTaylor & Francis, 1997 - 208 Seiten From Aristophanes to Split Britches, gender and performance have been inextricably linked to the stage. In a wide-ranging series of essays Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship and posits ways in which the self-referential conventions of theatre can reveal the performative element of gender. Analysing both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively, jargon-free prose style, Re-Dressing the Canon finds feminist fissures within the performance conventions of patriarchal drama. Among the dramatic texts considered are those of: Aristophanes Ibsen Yiddish theatre Mabou Mines Deborah Warner Shakespeare Brecht Ridiculous Theatre Split Britches Tony Kushner. Alisa Solomon moves beyond psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated feminist theatre criticism of the last decade, offering a new technique for investigating the relationship between theatre and gender. Re-Dressing the Canon bridges the boundary between theory and practice to make for a highly stimulating volume for theorists, students, contemporary performance-goers and practitioners alike. |
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... instances , the prism is a canonical play ; in others , it is a con- temporary production ( or deconstruction ) of a canonical play that deliberately puts gender issues in the foreground . I take as axiomatic that what happens in ...
... instances , the prism is a canonical play ; in others , it is a con- temporary production ( or deconstruction ) of a canonical play that deliberately puts gender issues in the foreground . I take as axiomatic that what happens in ...
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... instance , if instead of conceiving of the feminist agenda as winning women's equal representation - in imagery as well as government and commerce - we subscribe to Gayle Rubin's Utopian vision of feminism as the call to " liberate ...
... instance , if instead of conceiving of the feminist agenda as winning women's equal representation - in imagery as well as government and commerce - we subscribe to Gayle Rubin's Utopian vision of feminism as the call to " liberate ...
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... instance , can the male gaze be understood as having anything to do with an outdoor theater seating 14,000 spectators , where male actors play both male and female char- acters , in amplified masks and cothurni , and declaim verse in a ...
... instance , can the male gaze be understood as having anything to do with an outdoor theater seating 14,000 spectators , where male actors play both male and female char- acters , in amplified masks and cothurni , and declaim verse in a ...
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... instance , an undergraduate textbook called Feminist Frontiers III uses the idea of " double vision " to explain a feminist perspective : " Women's lives are seen simultaneously through the old lens of patriarchy and the new lens of ...
... instance , an undergraduate textbook called Feminist Frontiers III uses the idea of " double vision " to explain a feminist perspective : " Women's lives are seen simultaneously through the old lens of patriarchy and the new lens of ...
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... instances of Jewish performance . It asks : if some canonical plays can , through their ques- tioning of theater's representational strategies , raise questions about social conventions of gender , and if some contemporary productions ...
... instances of Jewish performance . It asks : if some canonical plays can , through their ques- tioning of theater's representational strategies , raise questions about social conventions of gender , and if some contemporary productions ...
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Seite 3 - In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate "act," but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names.