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Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether
by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in
Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what
does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose
bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow
actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing
Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties
of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at
stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today,
dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the
critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages
performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems
facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to
'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist
world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing
Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that
matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today.
Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether
by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in
Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what
does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose
bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow
actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing
Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties
of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at
stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today,
dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the
critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages
performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems
facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to
'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist
world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing
Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that
matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today.
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