Download or read book Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984-2000 written by Roberta Barker and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation of gender in selected recent performances of early modern tragedy. In the process, it elaborates a model of critically engaged spectatorship that will allow for the complexity and potential of such cultural productions, and shows how encounters between contemporary actors and early modern playtexts--often dismissed as merely conservative - can in fact help to uncover the instability and historical contingency of gender norms past and present.