Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
L. Monique Pittman
Abstract
Though most performances of William Shakespeare's As you like it focus on the comedy of Ganymede/Rosalind's interactions with Orlando, director Des McAnuff's 2012 Stratford Shakespeare Festival production instead manifests homoerotic tension between Celia and Rosalind. Shakespeare's textual allusions provide ample evidence to support this homoerotic reading which McAnuff actualizes between Cara Rickett's Celia and Andrea Runge's Rosalind through blocking and speech inflection. My analysis encompasses a detailed investigation of this particular production as well as a study of homoerotic desire between women, faciliating a critique of the methods of queer theory by engaging and refining its generalized critical principles.
Recommended Citation
Calkins, Theron L., "Never Two Ladies Lov'd as They Do: Queer Theory and As You Like It's Celia" (2012). Honors Theses. 48.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/48/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/48
Subject Area
Women in literature
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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/48/