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Carol Chillington Rutter, author of Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage (2001), focuses for instance on the body of Cordelia, as her father, King Lear, carries her on to the stage; on the body of Ophelia in the grave; and on the bodies of the two women on the bed at the end of Othello, "a play that destroys women." [5]
Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare.In the play, she disguises herself as a male shepherd named Ganymede. Many actors have portrayed Rosalind, including Sarah Wayne Callies, Maggie Smith, Elisabeth Bergner, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen Mirren, Patti LuPone, Helen McCrory, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester and ...
A print of Lady Macbeth from Mrs. Anna Jameson's 1832 analysis of Shakespeare's heroines, Characteristics of Women. Jenijoy La Belle takes a slightly different view in her article, "A Strange Infirmity: Lady Macbeth’s Amenorrhea". La Belle states that Lady Macbeth does not wish for just a move away from femininity; she is asking the spirits ...
– Anastasia, Herdon, Virginia, 15 The role of Desdemona, the devoted, loving wife murdered by her husband in “Othello,” wasn’t performed by a woman until 1660 – about six decades after ...
Beatrice is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.In the play, she is the niece of Leonato and the cousin of Hero.Atypically for romantic heroines of the sixteenth century, she is feisty and sharp-witted; these characteristics have led some scholars to label Beatrice a protofeminist character.
Loosely based on William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing, Anyone But You is chock-full of references to its source material that could be easily overlooked by the casual viewer.
Charles Kean (left) and Ellen Terry in The Winter's Tale, 1856. Terry was born in Coventry, England, the third surviving child born into a theatrical family. [2] Her parents, Benjamin (1818–1896), of Irish descent, and Sarah (née Ballard; 1819–1892), of Scottish ancestry, were comic actors in a Portsmouth-based touring company, [3] [4] (where Sarah's father was a Wesleyan minister) and ...
“3 Body Problem” was created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo. It is Benioff and Weiss’ first show since “Game of Thrones” ended. The alien epic is adapted from Liu Cixin ...