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9780415157216 English 0415157218 Re-Dressing the Canonexamines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively jargon-free style. Among the dramatic texts considered are those of Aristophanes, Ibsen, Yiddish theatre, Mabou Mines, Deborah Warner, Shakespeare, Brecht, Split Britches, Ridiculous Theatre, and Tony Kushner. Bringing to bear theories of 'gender performativity' upon theatrical events, the author explores: * the 'double disguise' of cross-dressed boy-actresses * how gender relates to genre (particularly in Ibsens' realism) * how canonical theatre represented gender in ways which maintain traditional images of masculinity and femininity., This work analyzes the relationship between gender and performance on stage in a wide-ranging series of essays that combine theoretical analysis, close reading, and performance criticism. The author suggests that the self-referential dimensions of theatre participate in revealing the performance-like conventions of gender. She argues that the mimetic apparatus of performance denaturalizes gender even when the play's narrative insists upon patriarchal images of femininity and masculinity. The book looks at Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Brecht, Yiddish theatre, and contemporary productions by the Ridiculous Theatre, Mabou Mines, Split Britches and others, finding feminist fissures within the performance conventions of patriarchal drama. This book calls for a theatre-based re-examination of canonical drama. Moving beyond the psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated feminist theatre criticism over the last decade, the author offers alternative techniques for investigating the relationship between theatre and gender., Written in clear and lively prose,Re-Dressing the Canonis a collection of related essays that consider the relationship between gender and performance in canonical texts and contemporary productions. The essays engage current debates in feminism and queer theory, and ultimately reject Lacanian psychoanalysis as the best lens through which to study theatre. Alisa Solomon offers a new technique for studying theatre that focuses on reading texts theatrically. With its fresh look at theatre from Aristophanes to Split Britches,Re-Dressing the Canonis a terrific book for anyone interested in theatre.
9780415157216 English 0415157218 Re-Dressing the Canonexamines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively jargon-free style. Among the dramatic texts considered are those of Aristophanes, Ibsen, Yiddish theatre, Mabou Mines, Deborah Warner, Shakespeare, Brecht, Split Britches, Ridiculous Theatre, and Tony Kushner. Bringing to bear theories of 'gender performativity' upon theatrical events, the author explores: * the 'double disguise' of cross-dressed boy-actresses * how gender relates to genre (particularly in Ibsens' realism) * how canonical theatre represented gender in ways which maintain traditional images of masculinity and femininity., This work analyzes the relationship between gender and performance on stage in a wide-ranging series of essays that combine theoretical analysis, close reading, and performance criticism. The author suggests that the self-referential dimensions of theatre participate in revealing the performance-like conventions of gender. She argues that the mimetic apparatus of performance denaturalizes gender even when the play's narrative insists upon patriarchal images of femininity and masculinity. The book looks at Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Brecht, Yiddish theatre, and contemporary productions by the Ridiculous Theatre, Mabou Mines, Split Britches and others, finding feminist fissures within the performance conventions of patriarchal drama. This book calls for a theatre-based re-examination of canonical drama. Moving beyond the psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated feminist theatre criticism over the last decade, the author offers alternative techniques for investigating the relationship between theatre and gender., Written in clear and lively prose,Re-Dressing the Canonis a collection of related essays that consider the relationship between gender and performance in canonical texts and contemporary productions. The essays engage current debates in feminism and queer theory, and ultimately reject Lacanian psychoanalysis as the best lens through which to study theatre. Alisa Solomon offers a new technique for studying theatre that focuses on reading texts theatrically. With its fresh look at theatre from Aristophanes to Split Britches,Re-Dressing the Canonis a terrific book for anyone interested in theatre.