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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... theatrical irony is : the startling contradiction of the stated by the shown . ( Introduction to Re - Dressing the Canon ) The writing and production of Western drama from the Greeks to the present has often been a patriarchal ...
... theatrical irony is : the startling contradiction of the stated by the shown . ( Introduction to Re - Dressing the Canon ) The writing and production of Western drama from the Greeks to the present has often been a patriarchal ...
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... theatrical process - the mimetic itself . In fact , the play's prologue , according to the Greek scholar Froma Zeitlin , contains the first tech- nical use of the term mimesis.2 The term comes up when Agathon the poet , dressed in a ...
... theatrical process - the mimetic itself . In fact , the play's prologue , according to the Greek scholar Froma Zeitlin , contains the first tech- nical use of the term mimesis.2 The term comes up when Agathon the poet , dressed in a ...
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... theatrical illusion itself . The point has permeated theater history for centuries . I'm interested in how feminist theater critics and practitioners might exploit it . When Aristophanes wrote Thesmophoriazusae , probably in 411 Bc , a ...
... theatrical illusion itself . The point has permeated theater history for centuries . I'm interested in how feminist theater critics and practitioners might exploit it . When Aristophanes wrote Thesmophoriazusae , probably in 411 Bc , a ...
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... theatrical metaphors to describe the com- plex social behavior we've come to call gender , comparing it to role - playing , masquerade , and play - acting . Of course this imagery has its limits : unlike the actor , we never get to make ...
... theatrical metaphors to describe the com- plex social behavior we've come to call gender , comparing it to role - playing , masquerade , and play - acting . Of course this imagery has its limits : unlike the actor , we never get to make ...
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... theatrical canon . Contemplating examples from the page , the stage , and the streets , I hope to reconnect a popular understanding of gender - as - performance to the source of its most provocative metaphor . I hope to re - enter the ...
... theatrical canon . Contemplating examples from the page , the stage , and the streets , I hope to reconnect a popular understanding of gender - as - performance to the source of its most provocative metaphor . I hope to re - enter the ...
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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.