Not Sycorax

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Abstract

Sycorax is an absence The Tempest - referred to by other characters but dead before the action of the play begins. But she is potently present in the imaginative fabric of the play and in the minds of its characters. And Prospero arguably thinks about himself as 'Not Sycorax' as much as he self-configures in positive terms. How has the potent absence and telling presence of Sycorax been treated in performance?
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWomen Making Shakespeare
Subtitle of host publicationText, Reception and Performance
EditorsGordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, Virginia Mason Vaughan
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
Pages335 - 345
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)ePDF: 978-1-4725-3938-0, ePub: 978-1-4725-3937-3
ISBN (Print)HB: 978-1-4081-8533-9, PB: 978-1-4081-8523-0
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2014

Keywords

  • Sycorax
  • performance
  • film
  • gender

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