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Shakespeare and the embodied heroine : staging female characters in the late plays and early adaptations / Lori Leigh.

Author

Leigh, Lori 1978-,
Date published

2014
Publisher

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subject

Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Characters Women.

Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Adaptations.

Accession number

8342396
Class

Reading Room - 48.1/LEI
Language

English
Physical description

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
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Introduction 1. Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer's Daughter and Emilia in Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant's The Rivals 2. No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare's The Tempest 3. Silence and Sorcery, Sexuality and Stone: Absent Parts to Understanding Hermione and Paulina in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Garrick's Florizel and Perdita 4. Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante's Rape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare's Cardenio Conclusion Bibliography Index

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