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This book is a collection of essays that discuss the relationship between gender and performance in canonical texts and contemporary productions. The essays engage current debates in feminism and queer theory, and ultimately reject Lacanian psychoanalysis as the best lens through which to study theatre.
Written in clear and lively prose, Re-Dressing the Canon is a collection of related essays that consider the relationship between gender and performance in canonical texts and contemporary productions. The essays engage current debates in feminism and queer theory, and ultimately reject Lacanian psychoanalysis as the best lens through which to study theatre. Alisa Solomon offers a new technique that focuses on reading texts theatrically and takes a fresh look at theater from Aristophanes to Split Britches.
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