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Shakespeare As Opera In English: Britten's Dream And Adès' The Tempest, Joanne E. Gates
Shakespeare As Opera In English: Britten's Dream And Adès' The Tempest, Joanne E. Gates
Presentations, Proceedings & Performances
I assert that we learn Shakespeare better when we study him against the adaptation. Some of the adaptation choices made by opera composers and librettists-- and especially by stage designers in recent productions-- provoke us to critique a production concept for its innovative staging, forcing us to learn more about Shakespeare's original. The recent Metropolitan's The Tempest conveys the 2004 Thomas Adès Tempest as if an 18th century impresario Prospero had conjured or appropriated the contents of the Milan opera house to his island. Meredith Oakes's libretto simplifies much of Shakespearean language to efficient rhyming couplets, yet this opera eloquently …
"In Loving Virtue": Staging The Virgin Body In Early Modern Drama, Miranda Viederman
"In Loving Virtue": Staging The Virgin Body In Early Modern Drama, Miranda Viederman
Honors Projects
The aim of this Honors project is to investigate representations of female virginity in Renaissance English dramatic works. I view the period as one in which the womb became the site of a unique renewal of cultural anxieties surrounding the stability of the patriarchy and the inaccessibility of female sexual desire. I am most interested in virginity as a “bodily narrative” dependent on the construction and maintenance of performance. I analyze representations of virginity in female characters from four works of drama originating in the Jacobean period of the English Renaissance, during and after the end of the reign of …