Shakespeare without women : representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage / Dympna Callaghan.

"Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this book, Callaghan argues that all Shakespeare's actors were, of historical necessity, (white) males which meant t...

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Main Author: Callaghan, Dympna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Accents on Shakespeare.
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Summary:"Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this book, Callaghan argues that all Shakespeare's actors were, of historical necessity, (white) males which meant that the portayal of women and racial others posed unique problems for his theatre. What is important, Shakespeare Without Women claims, is not to bemoan the absence of women, Africans, or the Irish, but to determine what such absences meant in their historical context and why they matter today."--Jacket.
Physical Description:xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-209) and index.
ISBN:0415202310
9780415202312
0415202329
9780415202329
Access:Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.