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Shakespeare's Violated Bodies
Stage and Screen Performance

Looks at the violation of bodies in Shakespeare's tragedies, especially as shown (or concealed) in performance on stage and screen.

Pascale Aebischer (Author)

9780521829359, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 April 2004

236 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.52 kg

Review of the hardback: 'Methodologically ... highly innovative, boldly fusing two critical schools usually seen as incompatible: textual and performance criticism. Aebischer demonstrates that the study of Shakespeare in performance cannot replace the close attention to the play texts, but may potentially enrich our understanding of them.' Shakespeare Jahrbuch Band

This study looks at the violation of bodies in Shakespeare's tragedies, especially as revealed (or concealed) in performance on stage and screen. Pascale Aebischer discusses stage and screen performances of Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear with a view to showing how bodies which are virtually absent from both playtexts and critical discourse (due to silence, disability, marginalisation, racial otherness or death) can be prominent in performance, where their representation reflects the cultural and political climate of the production. Aebischer focuses on post-1980 Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre productions but also covers film adaptations and landmark productions from the nineteenth century onwards. Her book will interest scholars and students of Shakespeare, gender, performance and cultural studies.

Prologue: The Gravedigger's daughter - a story of loss
Introduction: filling the empty space
1. Titus Andronicus: spectacular obscenities
2. 'Not dead? not yet quite dead?': Hamlet's unruly corpses
3. Murderous male moors: gazing at race in Titus Andronicus and Othello
4. En-gendering violence and suffering in King Lear
Epilogue: Polly goes to Hollywood - a success story
Appendix: Main productions cited
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB], Films, cinema [APF], Theatre studies [AN]

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