by Carol Chillington Rutter (Author)
Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.
Author Biography
Carol Rutter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.51 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 23, 2000