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Introduction: Shakespeare's public spheres
Habermasâ sense of a âcultural Public Sphereâ is a notoriously complex term and, when applied to Early Modern cultures, needs careful definition. This essay both introduces the variety of methods by which we might approach playtexts with a view to their public â auditory â impact and contributes to a debate about an audience's understanding of Shakespeare's plays. By selecting two words and their spread of use in one play, Twelfth Night, we might appreciate the potential for meaningful ambiguity latent in how we hear the language of live performance. If we search for how certain terms (in this case, the cluster of semes derived from repetitions of âfancyâ and âplayâ), we might find at times incompatible senses, yet we get near to appreciating the range of Early Modern dramatic language
Margaret Loftus Ranald. Shakespeare and His Social Context: Essays in Osmotic Knowledge and Literary Interpretation. New York: AMS Press, 1987. xvi + 288 pp. $42.50.
Women Making Shakespeare Text, Reception and Performance
Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. The book highlights the essential role Shakespeare's texts have played in the historical development of feminism. Rather than a traditional collection of essays, Women Making Shakespeare brings together materials from diverse resources and uses diverse research methods to create something new and transformative. Among the many women's interactions with Shakespeare to be considered are acting (whether on the professional stage, in film, on lecture tours, or in staged readings), editing, teaching, academic writing, and recycling through adaptations and appropriations (film, novels, poems, plays, visual arts).Intro -- Related Titles -- Title -- Contents -- PrefaceâGordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Text -- 1âEdward III: Women and the Making of Shakespeare as Historical DramatistâJean E. Howard -- 2âBeguiling FictionsâDympna Callaghan -- 3â'Bride-habited, but maiden-hearted': Language and Gender in The Two Noble KinsmenâHannah Crawforth -- 4âGender, the False Universal and Shakespeare's ComediesâHilda L. Smith -- 5âIn Plain Sight: Visible Women and Early Modern PlaysâDavid Scott Kastan -- 6âRemaking the Texts: Women Editors of Shakespeare, Past and PresentâValerie Wayne -- 7â'To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid': Woman's Role in the Production of Scholarly Editions of ShakespeareâNeil Taylor -- 8âSome Women Editors of Shakespeare: A Preliminary SketchâH. R. Woudhuysen -- 9âBernice Kliman's Enfolded HamletâJohn Lavagnino -- 10âWomen Making Shakespeare - and Middleton and JonsonâSuzanne Gossett -- Part Two: Reception -- 11âJuliet and the Vicissitudes of GenderâCatherine Belsey -- 12âWomen Painting Shakespeare: Angelica Kauffman's Text-imagesâKeir Elam -- 13âWomen Reading Witches, 1800-1850âLucy Munro -- 14âJoanna Baillie: The Female ShakespeareâFiona Ritchie -- 15âThe Girlhood of Mary Cowden ClarkeâKate Chedgzoy -- 16â'A Sacred Trust': Helen Faucit, Geraldine Jewsbury, and the Idealized ShakespeareâLois Potter -- 17âInvisible Women: Mary Dunbar and The Shakespeare Birthday BookâAnne Isherwood -- 18â'A marvelous convenient place': Women Reading Shakespeare in Montana, 1890-1918âGretchen E. Minton -- 19âRemembering Charlotte StopesâKathleen E. McLuskie -- 20â'Or was it Sh-p-re?': Shakespeare in the manuscript of Virginia Woolf's To the LighthouseâReiko Oya -- Part Three: Performance -- 21âThe Vere Street Desdemona: Othello and the Theatrical Englishwoman, 1602-1660âClare McManus22âLady Forbes-Robertson's War Work: Gertrude Elliott and the Shakespeare Hut Performances, 1916-1919âAilsa Grant Ferguson -- 23âEditing Olivier's Hamlet: An Interview with Helga KellerâGordon McMullan -- 24âTrusting the Words: Patsy Rodenburg, Laurence Olivier and the Women of Richard IIIâTrudi Darby -- 25âPeggy of AnjouâRuss McDonald -- 26âWomen Playing Hamlet on the Spanish StageâJosĂ© Manuel GonzĂĄlez -- 27âRe-making Katherina: Julia Marlowe and The Taming of the ShrewâElizabeth Schafer -- 28âClass, Identity, and Comic Choice: Bill Alexander's The Taming of the ShrewâIska Alter -- 29âRe-creating Katherina: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare's GlobeâFarah Karim-Cooper -- 30âMs-Directing Shakespeare at the Globe to Globe Festival, 2012âSonia Massai -- 31âSexing up Goneril: Feminism and Fetishization in Contemporary King Lear PerformanceâKevin A. Quarmby -- 32âNot SycoraxâJudith Buchanan -- 33â'Miranda, where's your mother?': Female Prosperos and What They Tell UsâVirginia Mason Vaughan -- 34âJoseph Cornell: A poem by John Thompson for Ann Thompson -- List of contributors -- Index -- CopyrightWomen Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. The book highlights the essential role Shakespeare's texts have played in the historical development of feminism. Rather than a traditional collection of essays, Women Making Shakespeare brings together materials from diverse resources and uses diverse research methods to create something new and transformative. Among the many women's interactions with Shakespeare to be considered are acting (whether on the professional stage, in film, on lecture tours, or in staged readings), editing, teaching, academic writing, and recycling through adaptations and appropriations (film, novels, poems, plays, visual arts).Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries