Re-Dressing the Canon
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Re-Dressing the Canon

Essays on Theatre and Gender

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Re-Dressing the Canon

Essays on Theatre and Gender

About this book

Re-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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
eBook ISBN
9781134728947
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Theatre

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of plates
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: how easy is a bush supposā€™d a bear
  10. 1. Much virtue in if: Shakespeareā€™s cross-dressed boy-actresses and the non-illusory stage
  11. 2. The New Drama and the New Woman: reconstructing Ibsenā€™s realism
  12. 3. Materialist girl: The Good Person of Szechwan and making gender strange
  13. 4. Queering the canon: Azoi toot a Yid
  14. 5. Three canonical crossings
  15. Epilogue: not just a passing fancy: notes on butch
  16. Notes
  17. Index