Sexuality in Shakespeare | Michael Hattaway (essay date 1994)
Michael Hattaway (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Fleshing His Will in the Spoil of Her Honour: Desire, Misogyny, and the Perils of Chivalry," in Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production, Vol. 46, 1994, pp. 121-35.
[In the following essay, Hattaway undertakes a general analysis of misogyny in Shakespeare's texts, describing four sites—anatomical, psycho-analytical, social, and ideological—in which misogyny occurs.]
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
To begin with, a description of an excellent but disconcertingly politically correct production of Measure for Measure by Compass Theatre Company.1 The group, directed by Neil Sissons, is a small one and, as with Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream, they generated a stunning new reading of the text by doubling members of the cast. Isabella and Mistress Over-done were played by the same actress; Angelo, Claudio, and Barnardine...
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