Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender,9780415157209

Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender

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ISBN13: 9780415157209
ISBN10: 041515720X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-12-11
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Written in clear and lively prose,Re-Dressing the Canonis a collection of related essays that consider the relationship between gender and performance in canonical texts and contemporary productions. The essays engage current debates in feminism and queer theory, and ultimately reject Lacanian psychoanalysis as the best lens through which to study theatre. Alisa Solomon offers a new technique for studying theatre that focuses on reading texts theatrically. With its fresh look at theatre from Aristophanes to Split Britches,Re-Dressing the Canonis a terrific book for anyone interested in theatre.

Table of Contents

List of plates
viii(1)
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: how easy is a bush suppos'd a bear 1(20)
1 Much virtue in if: Shakespeare's cross-dressed boy-actresses and the non-illusory stage
21(25)
2 The New Drama and the New Woman: reconstructing Ibsen's realism
46(24)
3 Materialist girl: The Good Person of Szechwan and making gender strange
70(25)
4 Queering the canon: Azoi toot a Yid
95(35)
5 Three canonical crossings
130(35)
Cracking nature's mold: Mabou Mines re-engenders Lear
130(14)
People don't do such things: Charles Ludlam's Hedda
144(10)
Epic fornications: Bloolips and Split Britches do Tennessee
154(11)
Epilogue: not just a passing fancy: notes on butch 165(14)
Notes 179(22)
Index 201

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