Re-Dressing the Canon - Essays on Theatre and Gender - Alisa Solomon - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 1997 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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Re-Dressing the Canon examines 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.