Hailey Bachrach (London Roehampton University)

Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays

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Produktbeschreibung

Hailey Bachrach reframes female characters' roles in the history plays, overhauling their critical reputations. Combining literary and theatrical analysis, she illuminates how Shakespeare imagined the past. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781009356138
• ISBN-10: 1009356135
• Artikelnr.: 69074060

Autorenporträt

Hailey Bachrach is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Roehampton. She has previously worked as a researcher for Shakespeare's Globe's 2019 history plays cycle. She is also a freelance drama critic and dramaturg.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Facts disfigured: reading history through female characters
2. From the margins: reading female characters into history
3. History as exclusion: Shakespeare's feminine historiography
4. Blurring the boundaries: effeminacy and feminine history
5. This is what you came to see
Bibliography.