Women Making Shakespeare

Text, Reception and Performance

Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, Virginia Mason Vaughan

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781408185230
• eBook ISBN: 9781472539373
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
• Index: Literature

Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. The book highlights the essential role Shakespeare's texts have played in the historical development of feminism. Rather than a traditional collection of essays, Women Making Shakespeare brings together materials from diverse resources and uses diverse research methods to create something new and transformative. Among the many women's interactions with Shakespeare to be considered are acting (whether on the professional stage, in film, on lecture tours, or in staged readings), editing, teaching, academic writing, and recycling through adaptations and appropriations (film, novels, poems, plays, visual arts).

Table of contents

• Related Titles
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Part One: Text
• 1 Edward III: Women and the Making of Shakespeare as Historical Dramatist Jean E. Howard
• 2 Beguiling Fictions Dympna Callaghan
• 3 ‘Bride-habited, but maiden-hearted’: Language and Gender in The Two Noble Kinsmen Hannah Crawforth
• 4 Gender, the False Universal and Shakespeare’s Comedies Hilda L. Smith
• 5 In Plain Sight: Visible Women and Early Modern Plays David Scott Kastan
• 6 Remaking the Texts: Women Editors of Shakespeare, Past and Present Valerie Wayne
• 7 ‘To be acknowledged, madam, is o’erpaid’: Woman’s Role in the Production of Scholarly Editions of Shakespeare Neil Taylor
• 8 Some Women Editors of Shakespeare: A Preliminary Sketch H. R. Woudhuysen
• 9 Bernice Kliman’s Enfolded Hamlet John Lavagnino
• 10 Women Making Shakespeare – and Middleton and Jonson Suzanne Gossett
• Part Two: Reception
• 11 Juliet and the Vicissitudes of Gender Catherine Belsey
• 12 Women Painting Shakespeare: Angelica Kauffman’s Text-images Keir Elam
• 13 Women Reading Witches, 1800–1850 Lucy Munro
• 14 Joanna Baillie: The Female Shakespeare Fiona Ritchie
• 15 The Girlhood of Mary Cowden Clarke Kate Chedgzoy
• 16 ‘A Sacred Trust’: Helen Faucit, Geraldine Jewsbury, and the Idealized Shakespeare Lois Potter
• 17 Invisible Women: Mary Dunbar and The Shakespeare Birthday Book Anne Isherwood
• 18 ‘A marvelous convenient place’: Women Reading Shakespeare in Montana, 1890–1918 Gretchen E. Minton
• 19 Remembering Charlotte Stopes Kathleen E. McLuskie
• 20 ‘Or was it Sh—p—re?’: Shakespeare in the manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Reiko Oya
• Part Three: Performance
• 21 The Vere Street Desdemona: Othello and the Theatrical Englishwoman, 1602–1660 Clare McManus
• 22 Lady Forbes-Robertson’s War Work: Gertrude Elliott and the Shakespeare Hut Performances, 1916–1919 Ailsa Grant Ferguson
• 23 Editing Olivier’s Hamlet: An Interview with Helga Keller Gordon McMullan
• 24 Trusting the Words: Patsy Rodenburg, Laurence Olivier and the Women of Richard III Trudi Darby
• 25 Peggy of Anjou Russ McDonald
• 26 Women Playing Hamlet on the Spanish Stage José Manuel González
• 27 Re-making Katherina: Julia Marlowe and The Taming of the Shrew Elizabeth Schafer
• 28 Class, Identity, and Comic Choice: Bill Alexander’s The Taming of the Shrew Iska Alter
• 29 Re-creating Katherina: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe Farah Karim-Cooper
• 30 Ms-Directing Shakespeare at the Globe to Globe Festival, 2012 Sonia Massai
• 31 Sexing up Goneril: Feminism and Fetishization in Contemporary King Lear Performance Kevin A. Quarmby
• 32 Not Sycorax Judith Buchanan
• 33 ‘Miranda, where’s your mother?’: Female Prosperos and What They Tell Us Virginia Mason Vaughan
• 34 Joseph Cornell: A poem by John Thompson for Ann Thompson
• List of contributors
• Index
• Copyright