Open AccessShakespeare’s Statuary Women and the Indoor Theatre’s Discovery Space
Author(s) -
Myles O'Gorman,
Bonnie Lander Johnson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
early theatre
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-7609
pISSN - 1206-9078
DOI - 10.12745/et.24.1.4242
Subject(s) - space (punctuation) , art , visual arts , literature , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics
This article places three scenes by Shakespeare within a specific architectural history. It reads the statuary female bodies of Desdemona, Hermione, and Imogen as revered and desecrated objects within the niched spaces of the indoor theatre’s discovery space.
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