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Nora J. Williams - Canonical Misogyny, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Canonical Misogyny

Shakespeare and Dramaturgies of Sexual Violence

Av Nora J. Williams

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Beskrivning
If misogyny is a systemic problem, then in order to understand its influence on canonical works like Shakespeare’s, those works must be investigated at their systems level – in other words, at the level of their dramaturgies. This landmark study arises from an eight-year practice-as-research (PaR) investigation of sexual violence and rape culture through Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Moving between analytical and critical-reflective voices, and prioritising knowledge arising from and questions generated by the author’s embodied investment in this PaR work, Canonical Misogyny focuses on dramaturgy as a site of ideology and meaning-making. It seeks to address the ways in which contemporary theatre allows producers of Shakespeare to represent gendered violence in unethical and irresponsible ways. It also demonstrates how failures to make meaningful dramaturgical interventions in early modern plays result in the tacit (or even explicit) glorifying and/or trivialising of their problematic approaches to consent and agency, which intersects with questions of race, gender, sexuality and class.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 354 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399502276
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Nora J. Williams is the Associate Dean for Access and Participation at BIMM University. Her work has previously been published in journals such as Shakespeare Bulletin and PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, as well as several edited collections. She is the co-host of Not Another Shakespeare Podcast! and the Notes section editor for Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

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Canonical Misogyny is a book fuelled by a keynote of anger. I responded with a sense of joy: joy at reading such a powerful articulation of several things that are poisoning academic communities; joy, too, at sensing that this book will, that it must, mark a turning point.[...] Canonical Misogyny resists easy resolutions; instead, the book invites future iterations of this project and work inspired by it. That, ultimately, is the gift Williams offers her readers: the sense not of a job well done, but of a job remaining to be done well, by us all. Let’s get started.

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