17 research outputs found
The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season
This essay interrogates the loading of the âRoaring Girlsâ season by asking what it means to âroarâ in both the early modern period and twenty-first century, unpacking the terms on which the women of these productions are empowered or undermined through their treatment by their male counterparts. Performed alongside the 2014 âMidsummer Mischiefâ new writing season, the plays reposition âroaringâ as challenging male-centred modes of representation. Drawing on Marvin Carlson's influential work on âghostingâ, this essay addresses these questions through investigation of the practices and implications of ensemble casting. With Arden of Faversham, The Roaring Girl and The White Devil sharing a single ensemble, the iterated roles of actors across the ensemble become key to understanding the season's overall strategies for presenting and interrogating misogyny. The recycling of actorsâ bodies throws into relief the individual roles of the main âroaring girlsâ, framing and articulating the role of mischievous disruption within the company's work
Margreta de Grazia. Hamlet without Hamlet. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 268 pp. index. illus. bibl. $34.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-69036-2.
Representing "Race" : the Stakes at Issue
The fantasy of â presence â in the body of the performer serves more to uncover the limits of representation than undo them. That we expect otherwise is testimony to the hold of the fantasy itself, to our enormous investment in cultural representation, and, crucially, to its conflation with political power. Shakespeareâs racially homogenous stage can serve as a site from which to address the stakes of representation, especially for those who in spite, or perhaps because, of their hypervisibility, have been historically its objects and not its subjects.La reprĂ©sentation de la âraceâ et ses enjeux
Le fantasme de âprĂ©senceâ corporelle de lâacteur sert plus Ă dĂ©couvrir les limites de la reprĂ©sentation quâĂ les annuler. Que nous nous attendions au contraire tĂ©moigne de lâemprise du fantasme lui-mĂȘme, de lâimportance de notre investissement dans la reprĂ©sentation culturelle et, de maniĂšre dĂ©cisive, de ses relations avec le pouvoir politique. La scĂšne shakespearienne, homogĂšne sur un plan social, peut servir de lieu dâoĂč nous pouvons questionner les enjeux de la reprĂ©sentation, principalement en ce qui concerne ceux qui, en dĂ©pit, ou peut-ĂȘtre, en raison de la force de leur acuitĂ© visuelle, ont Ă©tĂ©, sur un plan historique, ses objets et non ses sujets.Callaghan Dympna. Representing "Race" : the Stakes at Issue. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°24, avril 1998. Shakespeare. PrĂ©jugĂ©s et tolĂ©rance. pp. 37-45