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  title info:
    title: Hamlet's hereditary queen
    sub title: performing Shakespeare's silent female power
  name:
    name part: Roberts, Kerrie
    name part: (Playwright)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 210 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet's Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure within the play. It shows how traditional readings of this character, both performance-based and scholarly, have been guided and constrained by misogynistic perspectives on female power. Bringing together the author's wealth of insight from a theater practitioner's perspective and combining it with a scholarly perspective, the book argues that Gertrude need not be limited to sex and motherhood. She could instead be played as Denmark's blood royal Queen, her role in the play then being about female political power. Gertrude's royal status could play out on stage through a variety of possible performance choices for stage design, stage business, acting processes and the actor's presence, both speaking and silent. The book takes into consideration Shakespeare's source myths, historical studies of the position of queens and the issues concerning them in early modern England, Hamlet's performance history and the text itself. It questions traditional readings of Hamlet, and offers detailed analyses of relevant scenes to demonstrate how Gertrude's Hamlet might play out on stage in the 21st century. This is an engaging and insightful interpretation for students and scholars of theater and performance studies, Shakespeare studies and theater practitioners.
  table of contents: Introduction. Sticky bits, or not another theory on Hamlet -- Part I. Reading Gertrude -- Not representing Gertrude -- The glance, the gaze and Gertrude: minimise or sexualise -- Resistant reading -- Using the sticky bits -- Part II. Writing Gertrude -- Shakespeare's material: the history and the sources -- Shakespeare's Gertrude -- Part III. Performing a blood royal Gertrude -- The blood royal Gertrude's production history -- Status and silence -- Performing the sticky bits with power -- Conclusion. Female sovereign power -- Hamlet in three pages.
  note: Kerrie Roberts.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Characters
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Queen of Denmark (Fictitious character)
      name part: Gertrude
  subject:
    topic: Queens in literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Dramatic production
  classification: PR2807 .R57 2023
  classification: 822.3/3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
  identifier: 9781032193137
  identifier: 1032193131
  identifier: 9781032193144
  identifier: 103219314X
  identifier: 9781003258612
  identifier: 2022033816
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220809
    record change date: 20230320141407.9
    record identifier: in00004649307