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Book Synopsis«This collection of essays provides new perspectives on reading, reinterpreting, appropriating and popularising Shakespeare through the work of women – actresses, directors, designers, translators and scholars from different cultural, social and political, mostly non-English speaking, contexts. Raising a wide variety of urgent issues relating not only to Shakespeare but also to the arts, to gender matters, and to postcolonial and ethnic studies, this volume advocates both the illumination of the often neglected, forgotten and rarely appreciated women – who deserve the spotlight of attention on an international level – and the need for revisions in Shakespearean studies, which are dominated by cultural sameness of prevalently male professionals.» (Prof. Dr. habil. Bożenna Chylińska, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw)
Table of ContentsContents: Kathryn Prince: «True Originall Copies»: Charlotte Lennox’s
Shakespear Illustrated, Originality, Invention, and Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Reception – Catherine M.S. Alexander: Shakespeare and the Unsexed Females – Anna Cetera: Woman, Thy Name is Embarrassment! The Princess and the Playwright – Nita N. Kumar: «Shakespeare Is a Black Woman»: African American Women Writers and Shakespeare – Giovanna Buonanno: Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-century Italian International Actress: Adelaide Ristori as Lady Macbeth – Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney: «Born outside the Magic Pale of the Anglo-Saxon Race»: Political and Personal Dimension of Helena Modjeska’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies – Yoshiko Kawachi: Madame Sadayakko: The First Shakespearean Actress in Japan - On Her Contribution toward Modernizing the Stage – Rosemary Gaby: Taking Shakespeare to the Edge of the World: Leading Ladies on Tour in Colonial Australia – Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay: «Women of Ill-fame» and Shakespeare Performance in Colonial Bengal – Laurence Wright: «Most Fearful Hard Work»: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Marda Vanne and the «Good Companions» in South Africa – Donna Woodford-Gormley: The Woman behind the Mask: Cuban Women and Shakespeare – Anna Kamaralli: Revisionism or Fresh Vision? Silence, Speech and the Female Director – Xenia Georgopoulou: Shakespeare’s Magic Mirror: The Work of Raia Mouzenidou – Julie Sutherland: «Never Conquered nor Possessed»: Shakespeare in Native Canada and Québec in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries – Margarida Gandara Rauen: On Shakespeare by Brazilian Women.
