Can I read Performing Emotions : Gender, Bodies, Spaces, in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre on EtoBox?

Performing Emotions : Gender, Bodies, Spaces, in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre by Peta Tait is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Performing Emotions : Gender, Bodies, Spaces, in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre about?

"In Performing Emotions, Peta Tait's central argument is that performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity. Emotions are phenomena that are performable by bodies, which have cultural identities. In turn, these create cultural spaces of emotions. This study integrates scholarship on realist drama, theatre and approaches to acting, with interdisciplinary theories of emotion, phenomenology and gender theory. With chapters devoted to masculinity and femininity specifically, as well as to emotions generally, it investigates social beliefs about emotions through Chekhov's four major plays in translation, and English language commentaries on Constantin Stanislavski's direction (of the play's first productions) and his approaches to acting, and Olga Knipper's acting of the central women characters. Emotions exists as social relationships; they are imagined and embodied as gendered. Tait demonstrates how theatrical emotions are predicated on social performances and vice versa. In Chekhov's plays, which came to dominate a twentieth century theatre of emotions, characters interpret their emotions intertextually in relation to other theatrical and fictional narratives of e

Author

Peta Tait

Publisher

Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315247120

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Humanities