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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... representation of gender . First , precisely because Western theater's originary mimetic activity was female impersonation , acting is bound up with " femininity . " And second , because patriarchal culture has sustained an ideal of the ...
... representation of gender . First , precisely because Western theater's originary mimetic activity was female impersonation , acting is bound up with " femininity . " And second , because patriarchal culture has sustained an ideal of the ...
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... representation - in imagery as well as government and commerce - we subscribe to Gayle Rubin's Utopian vision of feminism as the call to " liberate human personality from the straightjacket of gender " 14 alto- gether , theater begins ...
... representation - in imagery as well as government and commerce - we subscribe to Gayle Rubin's Utopian vision of feminism as the call to " liberate human personality from the straightjacket of gender " 14 alto- gether , theater begins ...
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... representation . What Agathon says - just as Euripides predicted - contradicts what he displays . And yet , the play reminds us , he is merely an actor in the mask and androgynous costume of Agathon . In theater , especially in comedy ...
... representation . What Agathon says - just as Euripides predicted - contradicts what he displays . And yet , the play reminds us , he is merely an actor in the mask and androgynous costume of Agathon . In theater , especially in comedy ...
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... representation of women both on stage and off . The very obsession with gender conflicts on the Attic stage may even suggest a sort of guilty acknowledgement of the culture's relentless misogyny.26 Theater , like other cultural ...
... representation of women both on stage and off . The very obsession with gender conflicts on the Attic stage may even suggest a sort of guilty acknowledgement of the culture's relentless misogyny.26 Theater , like other cultural ...
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... representation , and that then rejects this totalizing Truth as inherently misogynistic . On the contrary , the- atrical presence displays the absence of any prior cap - T truth : there is no thing that theater copies . In a play ...
... representation , and that then rejects this totalizing Truth as inherently misogynistic . On the contrary , the- atrical presence displays the absence of any prior cap - T truth : there is no thing that theater copies . In a play ...
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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.