caa a22 4500 388094206 CHVBK 20180307125300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00012823 doi S0266464X00012823 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00012823 Friedman Sharon Revisioning the Woman's Part: Paula Vogel's ‘Desdemona' [Elektronische Daten] [Sharon Friedman] In Desdemona, Paula Vogel's revision of Shakespeare's Othello, we have a Desdemona who is Othello's worst nightmare, the transformation of lago's fiction into reality. Why has Paula Vogel created a Desdemona who, though ostensibly inside out, still appears to be Othello's projection? Sharon Friedman argues that although Paula Vogel's raucous Desdemona draws on many of the conventions of feminist revisioning, it marks an important shift in the feminist critical perspective in drama - as characterized by Lynda Hart, ‘from discovering and creating positive images of women ... to analyzing and disrupting the ideological codes embedded in the inherited structures of dramatic representation'. In a deconstructive parody, Vogel dislodges the convention of the intimate scene between women in Shakespeare's theatre and expands it into an entire play. Decentering the tragic hero, she foregrounds and enacts the threat of female desire that incites the tragic action, and disrupts the familiar categories of virgin, whore, and faithful handmaiden by forging links with gender ideology and class status. The author, Sharon Friedman, is an Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of New York University, and the author of several articles on American women dramatists, including Susan Glaspell and Lorraine Hansberry. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 131-141 0266-464X 15:2<131 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012823 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012823 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Friedman Sharon NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 131-141 0266-464X 15:2<131 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge