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- catalog abstract "Focusing on five Shakespeare plays, this book offers a fresh approach to the complex choices and decisions the women characters must face. Author Irene G. Dash scrutinizes stage productions over the centuries. Her exciting discoveries show the subtle ways the characters have been changed. By comparing promptbook versions from the eighteenth century to the present with the texts, Dash reveals how contemporary attitudes, spilling over into the theater, skew the works and diminish their breadth. Questions multiply as women attempt to understand relationship between the power of others over their lives and their own decisions about the moral responsibility for action. Shakespeare dramatizes these ideas. Dash shows how frequently such subtleties are lost on stage where roles are cut or reshaped, scenes transposed, or lines added. The author deftly analyzes the result of such changes. Lady Macbeth, for example, diminishes in complexity when the witches are transformed into dancing, singing choruses, or when Lady Macduff's murder disappears from the tragedy or when ironic lines are transformed. Comparing the seventeenth-century Davenant version and the twentieth-century Orson Welles film, Dash shows how these works illuminate Shakespeare's dramatic art.".
- catalog contributor b10265631.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Focusing on five Shakespeare plays, this book offers a fresh approach to the complex choices and decisions the women characters must face. Author Irene G. Dash scrutinizes stage productions over the centuries. Her exciting discoveries show the subtle ways the characters have been changed. By comparing promptbook versions from the eighteenth century to the present with the texts, Dash reveals how contemporary attitudes, spilling over into the theater, skew the works and diminish their breadth. Questions multiply as women attempt to understand relationship between the power of others over their lives and their own decisions about the moral responsibility for action. Shakespeare dramatizes these ideas. Dash shows how frequently such subtleties are lost on stage where roles are cut or reshaped, scenes transposed, or lines added. The author deftly analyzes the result of such changes. Lady Macbeth, for example, diminishes in complexity when the witches are transformed into dancing, singing choruses, or when Lady Macduff's murder disappears from the tragedy or when ironic lines are transformed. Comparing the seventeenth-century Davenant version and the twentieth-century Orson Welles film, Dash shows how these works illuminate Shakespeare's dramatic art.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Worlds within worlds -- When women choose: all's well that ends well -- Male magic : a midsummer night's dream -- Conflicting loyalties: Hamlet -- Dependent identities: Macbeth -- Challenging conventions; Twelfth night -- Conclusion : the great globe itself.".
- catalog extent "304 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays.".
- catalog identifier "0874135990 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "822.3/3 20".
- catalog subject "Domestic drama, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR2991 .D26 1996".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Women.".
- catalog subject "Women England Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Worlds within worlds -- When women choose: all's well that ends well -- Male magic : a midsummer night's dream -- Conflicting loyalties: Hamlet -- Dependent identities: Macbeth -- Challenging conventions; Twelfth night -- Conclusion : the great globe itself.".
- catalog title "Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays / Irene G. Dash.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".