TY - BOOK ID - 77873192 TI - Gender and performance in Shakespeare's problem comedies PY - 1997 SN - 0585161666 9780585161662 0253333067 9780253333063 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Feminism and literature KW - Man-woman relationships in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Comedy. KW - Man-woman relationships in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Comedy KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - Comic literature KW - Literature, Comic KW - Drama KW - Wit and humor KW - History KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Shakespeare, William KW - Shakespear, William, KW - Shakspeare, William, KW - Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, KW - Saixpēr, Gouilliam, KW - Shakspere, William, KW - Shikisbīr, Wilyam, KW - Szekspir, Wiliam, KW - Šekspyras, KW - Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, KW - Šekspir, Viljem, KW - Tsikinya-chaka, KW - Sha-shih-pi-ya, KW - Shashibiya, KW - Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, KW - Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, KW - Syeiksŭpʻio, KW - Shekspir, V. KW - Szekspir, William, KW - Shakespeare, Guglielmo, KW - Shake-speare, William, KW - Sha-ō, KW - Şekspir, KW - Shekspir, Uiliam, KW - Shekspir, U. KW - Šekspir, Vilijam, KW - Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, KW - Shakspir, KW - Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, KW - Şekspir, Velyam, KW - Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, KW - Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, KW - Ṣēkspiyar, KW - Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, KW - Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, KW - Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, KW - Shēkʻspir, KW - Shakespeare, KW - Śeksper, KW - Шекспир, Вильям, KW - Шекспир, Уильям, KW - שייקספיר, וויליאם, KW - שייקספיר, וו., KW - שיקספיר, וויליאם KW - שיקספיר, ויליאם KW - שיקספיר, ויליאם, KW - שכספיר, ויליאם, KW - שכספיר, וילים, KW - שכספיר, ו׳ KW - שעפקספיר, וויליאם, KW - שעקספיער, וויליאם KW - שעקספיער, וויליאם, KW - שעקספיער, ווילליאם KW - שעקספיער, וו., KW - שעקספיר KW - שעקספיר, וו KW - שעקספיר, וויליאם, KW - שעקספיר, וויליאמ KW - שעקספיר, ווילליאם KW - שעקספיר, ווילליאם, KW - שעקספיר, וו., KW - שעקספיר, װיליאם, KW - שעקספיר, װילליאם, KW - שעקספיר, װ., KW - שעקספער KW - שעקספער, וויליאמ KW - שקספיר KW - שקספיר, וו KW - שקספיר, וויליאם KW - שקספיר, וויליאם, KW - שקספיר, ווילים, KW - שקספיר, וילאם KW - שקספיר, ויליאם KW - שקספיר, ויליאם, KW - שקספיר, ויליים, KW - שקספיר, וילים KW - שקספיר, וילים, KW - شاكسبير، وليم KW - شاكسپير، وليم KW - شكسبير، وليام KW - شكسبير، وليم KW - شكسبير، وليم، KW - شكسبير، و. KW - شكسپير، وليم KW - شكسپير، ويليام KW - شيكسبير، وليام KW - شيكسبير، وليام.، KW - شيكسبير، وليم KW - شکسبير، وليم KW - وليم شکسبير KW - 沙士北亞威廉姆, KW - 沙士比亞威廉姆, KW - 莎士比亞威廉姆, KW - 莎士比亞威廉, KW - 莎士比亞, KW - Painter, William, KW - Comedies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77873192 AB - "Composed at a critical moment in English history, Shakespeare's "problem plays"--All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida - dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly; females contend and confound traditional femininity. Male authority, even male ideas of the heroic, suffers in the face of a female's disruptive sexual power. By resisting comic closure, these plays leave uncontained the subversions of gender that comedies for the most part successfully hold in check." "David McCandless follows the drama of gender enacted in these plays. His approach weds a theoretically engaged textual analysis to the dynamics of performance. He adopts the perspective not of expert spectator but of practitioner, bringing directorial modes of inquiry to his analysis. While drawing upon the performance histories of the problem comedies, he exploits his own experience as a director in dramatizing and theorizing the enactment of gender. The book provides a unique and invigorating example of how performance criticism can illuminate these difficult, sometimes overlooked tragicomedies."--Jacket. ER -