Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage
Author:   Carol Chillington Rutter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415141635


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   23 November 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage


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Enter The Body speculates on how the theatre 'plays' women's bodies, and how audiences read them. Covering such topics such as sex, death, race, gender, culture and politics, Rutter explores five of Shakespeare's female characters as she reconstructs specific moments of theatrical production that puts bodies spectacularly in play. Ophelia in the grave Cordelia in Lear's arms Emilia gossiping Cressida handing over her glove Cleopatra contesting white imperialism with her blackness. One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter also situates these roles on the early modern stage, observing performers such as Anna, Queen of Denmark, Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Mirren, Janet Suzman, Helen Bonham-Carter, Kate Winslet, Judi Dench and Whoopi Goldberg.

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Author:   Carol Chillington Rutter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415141635


ISBN 10:   041514163
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   23 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of plates, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Body parts or parts for bodies: speculating on Cordelia, 2 Snatched bodies: Ophelia in the grave, 3 Shadowing Cleopatra: making whiteness strange, 4 Designs on Shakespeare: Troilus’s sleeve, Cressida’s glove, Helen’s placket, 5 Remembering Emilia: gossiping hussies, revolting housewives, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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The strongest parts of Rutter's book include descriptions of Shakespearean productions from various decades.. <br>-American Theatre, Lenora Inez Brown, May/June 2001 <br> When Enter the Body focuses on ideas like these, it excels and excites the imagination.. <br>-American Thetre, Lenora Inez Brown, May/June 2001 <br>


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Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.

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