Re-dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and GenderRe-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively jargon-free style. Among the dramatic texts considered are those of Aristophanes, Ibsen, Yiddish theatre, Mabou Mines, Deborah Warner, Shakespeare, Brecht, Split Britches, Ridiculous Theatre, and Tony Kushner. Bringing to bear theories of 'gender performativity' upon theatrical events, the author explores: * the 'double disguise' of cross-dressed boy-actresses * how gender relates to genre (particularly in Ibsens' realism) * how canonical theatre represented gender in ways which maintain traditional images of masculinity and femininity. |
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theater can question the very means of its production, call attention to its own
processes and limits, and, as a result, raise questions about the images and
ideologies it may give stage and voice to. It can self-reflex- ively consider its own
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theater can question the very means of its production, call attention to its own
processes and limits, and, as a result, raise questions about the images and
ideologies it may give stage and voice to. It can self-reflex- ively consider its own
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It's another to feel authorized to assume the strength and self-sovereignty
masculinity claims. ... women's self-defense community painfully suggests that
knowing that gender is theater-like has little bearing on one's ability to flout its
rigid rules.
It's another to feel authorized to assume the strength and self-sovereignty
masculinity claims. ... women's self-defense community painfully suggests that
knowing that gender is theater-like has little bearing on one's ability to flout its
rigid rules.
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RE-DRESSING THE CANON: Essays on Theatre and Gender
Nutzerbericht - KirkusTheater critic, dramaturge, and Village Voice staff writer Solomon (English and Theater/City Univ. of New York Graduate Center) offers a fresh, authoritative view of the canon as the seat, not the ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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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.
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Re-dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender To Philosophy |
| Autor/in | Alisa Solomon |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Taylor & Francis, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0415157218, 9780415157216 |
| Länge | 208 Seiten |
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