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Early modern tragedy, gender and performance, 1984-2000：the destined livery

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Main Authors: Barker Roberta.
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Basingstoke [England] New York
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Gender identity in the theater.
Sex role in the theater.
Feminism and theater > History > 20th century.
Theater > History > 20th century.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Gender identity in motion pictures.
Carrier Form: xii, 237 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781403994790 (hbk.)
140399479X (alk. paper)
Index Number: I561
CLC: I561.073
Call Number: I561.073/B255
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-229) and index.
Introduction : the destined livery? : tragedy, performance, subject and spectator -- Part I. Realism and reinscription -- What we are, but not what we may be : the feminist Ophelia and the (re)production of gender -- An actor in the main of all : individual and relational selves in The Duchess of Malfi -- The natural father and the imaginary daughter : patriarchy as realism and representation in Titus -- Part II. Performance and performativity -- "Let me forget myself" : what a queen is good for in Edward II -- Death and the married maiden : gender reproduction as destruction in The broken heart -- Tricked like a bride : a new traffic in A woman killed with kindness -- Conclusion : cultural drag; or, Hamlet and Ophelia redux.
Roberta Barker advances a new model for politically engaged spectatorship of contemporary productions by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

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