Women Making Shakespeare

<i>Women Making Shakespeare</i> presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources including interviews with directors actors and other performance practitioners to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women working individually or in communities have shaped and transformed the reception performance and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present. <br/><br/>The book highlights the essential role Shakespeare's texts have played in the historical development of feminism. Rather than a traditional collection of essays <i>Women Making Shakespeare </i>brings together materials from diverse resources and uses diverse research methods to create something new and transformative. Among the many women's interactions with Shakespeare to be considered are acting (whether on the professional stage in film on lecture tours or in staged readings) editing teaching academic writing and recycling through adaptations and appropriations (film novels poems plays visual arts).