Hamlet's hereditary queen : performing Shakespeare's silent female power
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Hamlet's hereditary queen : performing Shakespeare's silent female power
（Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies）
Routledge, 2023
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
WHY PUBLISH:
- The author applies over 15 years experience and insights as a theatre practitioner to her argument.
- The book offers a fresh vantage point for a play that has been exhaustively analysed.
- Shakespeare scholarship travels well globally, and so the work will appeal to a broad, international, English-speaking audience.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Sticky bits, or not another theory on Hamlet Part 1: Reading Gertrude 1. Not representing Gertrude 2. The glance, the gaze and Gertrude: minimise or sexualise 3. Resistant reading 4. Using the sticky bits Part 2: Writing Gertrude 5. Shakespeare's material: the history and the sources 6. Shakespeare's Gertrude Part 3: Performing a blood royal Gertrude 7. The blood royal Gertrude's production history 8. Status and silence 9. Performing the sticky bits with power 10. Conclusion: female sovereign power
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