Shakespeare's Women - Softcover

Appel, Libby Chitwood; Frlachmann, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809312417 ISBN 13: 9780809312412

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 1986

Synopsis

Serves both as a script for performance and as a text for high school and college theater and English classes. This self-contained script brings together different scenes from Shake-speare's plays to portray women "in all their infinite variety." Two narrators, a man and a woman, introduce and com-ment on these scenes, weaving together the different characters and situations. This book combines literary and theat-rical techniques in examining Shake-speare's women. Its promptbook format provides clear, helpful stage directions on pages facing each of the scenes. Also help-ful are concise glosses and footnotes to define difficult words and phrases plus a commentary to explain each scene in its dramatic context. Other features include sheet music for each song in the play, a bibliography on the topic of women in Shakespeare's plays, and suggestions for directors who wish to stage the play.

About this title

About the Author

Libby Appel is Dean and Artistic Di-rector of the School of Theater at Califor-nia Institute of Arts. Michael Flachmann is Professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0809312417
• ISBN 13: 9780809312412
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176