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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... nature and feminist potential spring . As the quintessential mimetic art - Bruce Wilshire calls it " the art of imitation that reveals imitation ” 7 . theater can question the very means of its production , 2 Introduction.
... nature and feminist potential spring . As the quintessential mimetic art - Bruce Wilshire calls it " the art of imitation that reveals imitation ” 7 . theater can question the very means of its production , 2 Introduction.
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... reveal performativity ? " 13 So I return to the scene of the crime : the Western theatrical canon . Contemplating examples from the page , the stage , and the streets , I hope to reconnect a popular understanding of gender - as ...
... reveal performativity ? " 13 So I return to the scene of the crime : the Western theatrical canon . Contemplating examples from the page , the stage , and the streets , I hope to reconnect a popular understanding of gender - as ...
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... reveal his leather phallus ) . He is swaddled in a girdle , draped in a yellow gown ( which conceals his phallus ) , and trussed with a wig - all accoutrements borrowed from Agathon . Agathon explains why he possesses this wardrobe with ...
... reveal his leather phallus ) . He is swaddled in a girdle , draped in a yellow gown ( which conceals his phallus ) , and trussed with a wig - all accoutrements borrowed from Agathon . Agathon explains why he possesses this wardrobe with ...
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... reveal that she is the object of his desire . In this way , the audience also perceives her as an object of desire , by identifying with his male gaze . Case is referring to only one genre of theater here , though she implies that she ...
... reveal that she is the object of his desire . In this way , the audience also perceives her as an object of desire , by identifying with his male gaze . Case is referring to only one genre of theater here , though she implies that she ...
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... reveals how social attitudes about race and gender inhibit a white man from sus- taining an aesthetic attitude . At a women's bodybuilding show called The Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World , it was the staged flout- ing of gender ...
... reveals how social attitudes about race and gender inhibit a white man from sus- taining an aesthetic attitude . At a women's bodybuilding show called The Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World , it was the staged flout- ing of gender ...
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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.