Thesis
Shakespeare's women and the fin de siècle
- Abstract:
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Scholarship on Victorian productions of Shakespeare typically isolates Shakespeare from the rest of the repertory. My thesis illuminates how late-Victorian performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama conditioned each other. I re-interrogate iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare’s heroines to reveal actresses’ performance networks, showing how actresses’ movements between fin-de-siècle roles created consonances between ostensibly antithetical areas of the repertoire. Th...
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Contributors
+ Eltis, S
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
+ Maguire, LE
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:9696
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Sophie V. Duncan
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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