Performing visible pregnancy in Shakespeare's plays /
This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. It examines the connections between a character's costume and the changing social conventions of pregnancy. It questions mid twentieth century productions' reduction and elimination of well...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 'Big-bellied' women: Shakespeare, pregnancy, and dressing the pregnant character
- The gravid body: Juliet, Measure for Measure
- Choosing visibility: Helena, All's Well That Ends Well
- Case study: Hermione, The Winter's Tale
- When pregnancy is visible: what actors say about performing Hermione's pregnancy
- The pregnant actress: The Comedy of Errors 2021
- Conversation with Phillip Breen and Hedydd Dylan
- Epilogue.