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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre
About this book
Shortlisted for the 2024 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize
This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds.
The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time.
Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and globalization and diasporic studies, this book demonstrates how researchers are currently addressing theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this collection offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities and understandings.
Featuring essential research tools, including a survey of keywords and an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.
This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds.
The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time.
Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and globalization and diasporic studies, this book demonstrates how researchers are currently addressing theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this collection offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities and understandings.
Featuring essential research tools, including a survey of keywords and an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- About this Book
- Acknowledgements
- Part One Orientations and Reorientations
- 1 Introduction: Gender and Theatre
- 2 Keywords: Gender, Trans, and Intersectionality
- 3 Framing Theatre and Gender through Indigenous Performance Practices: A Roundtable
- 4 Gender as Method: Brecht, Mao, and Objects of History
- Part Two Geopolitics and Biopolitics
- 5 Introduction to Part Two
- 6 Disobedient Women and Theatre Historiography in India
- 7 Gender Politics in the Cabaret Theatre of Jesusa RodrĂguez and Astrid Hadad
- 8 Afro/Caribbean Crossings: Gaël Octavia, Guy Régis Jr, and Sex/Gender/Theatre Work with Heteroimperiality
- 9 The Intersectional Politics of Nakkiah Luiâs Blackie Blackie Brown and How to Rule the World
- 10 Uncanny Masculinity: Disrupting White Male Privilege in Two Contemporary Canadian Plays
- 11 False Bound Feet and Forged Paintings: Propping up Gender in Early Modern Chinese Theatre
- 12 Schrödingerâs Pussy: Slave Actors and Fluid Desire in Early Roman Comedy
- Part Three Transmedia
- 13 Introduction to Part Three
- 14 Dead Girl Walking: Girlhood and Happy Endings in Heathers: The Musical
- 15 Theatrical Transing and the Virtuosic Self
- 16 Stage Body, Stage Gender: Kabuki Actors and Print Identity in Early Modern Japan (1600â1868)
- 17 Gender Performance, Sexual Play, and Early Modern Holiday Games
- 18 âWhoâs Invited to the Cookout?â: The Spectralization of Black Women in Theatre and New Media
- 19 Cultural Genitals and the Emancipated Fembot: Performing Gender, Race, and Technology in Cyborg Theatre
- Part Four Genre and Theatrical Form
- 20 Introduction to Part Four
- 21 Rethinking Gender in the Hispanic Comedia
- 22 Post-Folkloric Drag: MĂ©xico de Colores and the Theatricalization of Gender
- 23 Staging Femme Excess in the Work of Lucy McCormick, Selina Thompson, and Travis Alabanza
- 24 Performing Vulnerable Masculinity in Northern Irelandâs Post-Conflict Documentary Theatre
- 25 Becoming Afriqueer: Conjuring Alternative Masculinities Through Site-Specific Performance
- 26 Towards a Trans Theatre
- Annotated Play Lists
- Index
- Copyright