Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond centres dialogue between scholars, students, and professional theatre practitioners to rethink gender on the early modern stage and its resonance for casting, staging, and design in contemporary classical theatre. Its scope extends beyond the confines of Shakespeare’s Globe and the myth of the all-male stage to explore the exciting possibilities of gendered performance evident on the stages of Europe and in the work of less-famous playwrights. Women and queer and trans artists and artisans were central to the theatres of early modern Europe, and this book’s collaborative exploration of this historical evidence opens exciting new avenues for theatrical production and research. It mobilizes shared insights by scholars and theatre practitioners who hold deep investments in gender equity in their respective workplaces and explores Two-Spirit and trans histories typically excluded in both theatre history studies and present-day performance repertoires. Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond offers provocations arising from a five-day Performance as Research (PaR) workshop at the Stratford Festival. Featuring guest artist and actor commentary, a poem, a zine, scholarly essays and reflections, and three specially commissioned visual art pieces, the book adapts to print form the open and exploratory spirit of the workshop itself, inviting readers to embrace the possibilities of trans-disciplinary, provisional knowledges and knowledge dissemination that are central to PaR methodologies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-10-17
Mått159 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487541910

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPart 1: Setting the StageIntroductionPeter Cockett and Melinda J. Gough1. The Meeting of Art and AcademiaKeira LoughranPart 2: Beyond the Globe2. Architectures of GenderE.M. Parry with Peter Cockett and Melinda Gough3. We Exist When We Tell Our StoriesCarmen AlvisPart 3: Energies, Evidence, Emergent Practices4. Potential Energies in the Early Modern French RepertoireEllen Welch5. The PaRchive: Archiving Process in Practice-as-Research and the Work of Theatre HistoryCallan Davies6. A Note to Mary FrithSL GrangePart 4: Skill, Power, and Swordplay7. Drawing Your WeaponPeter Cockett and Melinda J. Gough with Cole Alvis, Emma Frankland, Lily McEvenue, and Denise Oucharek8. Casting The Roaring Girl: Embodied Skill, History, and Lived Experience Clare McManusPart 5: Stepping Beyond Binaries9. "Mincing Steps" and "Manly Strides": Practicing Gendered Footwork on the Early Modern StageNatasha Korda10. Performing Gender "From the Ground Up"Peter Cockett and Melinda J. Gough with Emma Frankland, Lily McEvenue, André Morin, Marcus Nance, and Denise Oucharek11. Two Shadows to One ShapeE.M. Parry with Peter Cockett and Melinda J. GoughPart 6: Disruptive Boys12. Boi-ActrxE.M. Parry with Peter Cockett and Melinda J. Gough13. A Question to Be Asked: Boy Actors, Performance as Research, and Theatre HistoryRoberta Barker and Lucy MunroPart 7: Rehearsing, Teaching, Translating14. Calling across from Our Difference: Teaching (Gender) Nonconforming Characters in Early Modern English DramaJessica Swain15. Rehearsing The Lieutenant Nun: Translation in ActionEdward McLean TestPart 8: Dreaming PaR Futures16. To Degender is to DecolonizeMadeleine Krusto and Kitoko Mai(Non)ConclusionsPeter Cockett and Melinda J. GoughBibliographyContributorsIndex