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Hamlet’s Hereditary Queen
- Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power
Engelsk Paperback
Hamlet’s Hereditary Queen
- Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power
Engelsk Paperback

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This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet’s Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure in the play. It shows how traditional readings of this character, both performance-based and scholarly, have been guided and constrained by misogynistic perspectives on female power.

Bringing together the author’s wealth of insight from a theatre practitioner’s perspective and combining it with a scholarly perspective, the book argues that Gertrude need not be limited to sex and motherhood. She could instead be played as Denmark’s blood royal Queen, her role in the play then being about female political power. Gertrude’s royal status could play out on stage through a variety of possible performance choices for stage design, stage business, acting processes, and the actor’s presence – both speaking and silent.

Hamlet''s Hereditary Queen takes into consideration Shakespeare’s source myths, historical studies of the position of queens and the issues concerning them in early modern England, Hamlet’s performance history, and the text itself. It questions traditional readings of Hamlet, and offers detailed analyses of relevant scenes to demonstrate how Gertrude’s Hamlet might play out on stage in the twenty-first century.

This is an engaging and insightful interpretation for students and scholars of theatre and performance studies and Shakespeare studies, as well as theatre practitioners.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
210
ISBN-13:
9781032193144
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
103219314X
Udg. Dato:
30 dec 2022
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
232mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 dec 2022
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