Penny Gay: 2 books
As She Likes It
Shakespeare's Unruly Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies.
Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how...
by Penny Gay
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and...