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Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays

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Focusing on five Shakespeare plays, this book offers a fresh approach to the complex choices and decisions the women characters must face. Author Irene G. Dash scrutinizes stage productions over the centuries. Her exciting discoveries show the subtle ways the characters have been changed. By comparing promptbook versions from the eighteenth century to the present with the texts, Dash reveals how contemporary attitudes, spilling over into the theater, skew the works and diminish their breadth.

Questions multiply as women attempt to understand relationship between the power of others over their lives and their own decisions about the moral responsibility for action. Shakespeare dramatizes these ideas.

Dash shows how frequently such subtleties are lost on stage where roles are cut or reshaped, scenes transposed, or lines added. The author deftly analyzes the result of such changes. Lady Macbeth, for example, diminishes in complexity when the witches are transformed into dancing, singing choruses, or when Lady Macduff's murder disappears from the tragedy or when ironic lines are transformed.

Comparing the seventeenth-century Davenant version and the twentieth-century Orson Welles film, Dash shows how these works illuminate Shakespeare's dramatic art.

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English
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304

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Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays
1997, University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index.

Published in
Newark, Del, London, Cranbury, NJ

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822.3/3
Library of Congress
PR2991 .D26 1996, PR2991.D26 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
304 p. :
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL966311M
Internet Archive
womensworldsinsh0000dash
ISBN 10
0874135990
LCCN
96002686
OCLC/WorldCat
34604081
Library Thing
2688404
Goodreads
2891944

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