Rosalind
eBook - ePub

Rosalind

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

Played by a boy actor in 1599, Rosalind is a girl who gets into men's clothes so that she can investigate the truth about love. Both male and female, imaginary and real, her intriguing duality gives her a special role.This highly original biography of Rosalind contains exclusive new interviews with Juliet Rylance, Sally Scott, Janet Suzman, Juliet Stevenson, Michelle Terry, award-winning director Blanche McIntyre, as well as insights from Michael Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Greg Doran, Rebecca Hall, Adrian Lester, Pippa Nixon, Vanessa Redgrave, and Fiona Shaw.Exploring the fictitious life and the many after-lives of Rosalind, Angela Thirwell delves into the character's perennial influence on drama, fiction and art. For any fan of the theater, this book ranges far and wide across the Elizabethan world, sexual politics, autobiography, and filmography, bringing Shakespeare's immortal heroine to new and vivid life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Prologue - Enter Rosalind
  5. Act One - In the Green Room – Rosalind ’s Ancestors
  6. Act Two Scene One - Rosalind’s Elder Sisters
  7. Act Two Scene Two - Younger Sisters
  8. Act Three - Call Me Ganymede – Rosalind Crosses the Border
  9. Interval - Gloriana
  10. Act Four - Like the Bay of Portugal – Rosalind’s Love Life
  11. Act Five Scene One - Celia – Juno’s Swan
  12. Act Five Scene Two - Orlando – So Much in the Heart of the World
  13. Epilogue - As You Like It
  14. Afterlife - A Woman For All Time – Rosalind’s Daughters
  15. Programme - Family Trees and Cast, Synopsis, Proverbs, Forest of Arden
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Sources and Notes
  18. Filmography
  19. List of Illustrations
  20. Illustrations
  21. Index
  22. Copyright