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In this controversial book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company , and in particular: the influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg the history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare and Feminist Performance demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help anyone interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.
In this controversial book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company , and in particular: the influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg the history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare and Feminist Performance demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help anyone interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.
Introduction; Chapter 1 The ideologies of acting and the performance of women; Chapter 2 Punching Daddy, or the politics of company politics; Chapter 3 The Taming of the Shrew; Epilogue Epilogue;
Sarah Werner
"I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new
Accents on Shakespeare volumes in the new series edited by Terence
Hawkes and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research
and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find
them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive,
timely, and informative, and essential way to keep current with the
fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism."
-Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary
History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Accents on Shakespeare is shaping up as everything a streetwise
series of books on the Bard should be: engaged, imaginative,
heretical and occasionally outrageous. No one who aims to have
their finger on the pulse of Shakespeare studies can afford to
ignore it."
-Kiernan Ryan Professor of English, Royal Holloway, University of
London and Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge
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