The start ow SHAKESPEARE's FEMALE IcoNs Volume XXXI 2012 Vol. XXXI Digital Facsimile The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare journal, Volume XXXI, 2012 is published by Clemson Universicy Digital Press. © 2013 Clemson Univcrsicy ISSN: 0886-2168 ~ EDITOR ·~ \ Elizabeth Rivlin CLEMSON UNIVERSITY DIGITAL PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ray Barfield, Wayne Chapman, Jonathan Field, Martin Jacobi, Michael LeMahieu, Chantelle MacPhee, Brian McGrath, Lee Morrissey, and Will Stockton BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Will Stockton, Clemson University ADVISORY BOARD James Berg, Pam Brown, Patricia Cahill, Ann C. Christensen, Katherine Conway, Herbert Coursen, Mary Agnes Edsall, John R. 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Meanwhile, rates for the present (and last) volume of 1he Upstart Crow are as follows: 1-year subscription for individuals (Vol. XXXI): $17 1-year subscription for institutions (Vol. XXXI): $22 Past volumes arc available in print at $17 (includc..-s S&H). Complete sets arc for sale at $350. 1he Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare journal is produced by the Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing for Clemson University Digital Press, using Microsoft' Word and Adobe° Creative Suite 6.0. 1he Upstart Crow is set in Garamond Pro. Printed by Ricoh USA. Clemson University Digital Press Vol. XXXI Digital Facsimile THE • VPSTART • CROW Contents Essays Francesca T. Royster • Introduction to ''Shakespeare's Female Icons": Sorcerers, Celebrities, Aliens, and Upstarts ....................................................................... 5 Natalie Jones Loper • Ordinary Stardom: The Tragic Duality ofjulia Stiles's Ophelia ........................................................................................................ 14 Dee Anna Phares • Desi "was a ho':· Ocular (Re)proof and the Story ofO ............. 34 Kendra Preston Leonard • Rosalind's Musical /conicity in Branagh and Doyle's As You Like It .............................................................................................. 54 Niamh J. O'Leary • Ambition and Desire: Gertrude as Tragic Hero in Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet (2006) ..................................................................... 63 Catherine E. Thomas • (Un)sexing Lady Macbeth: Gender, Power, and Visual Rhetoric in Her Graphic Afterlives.......... ........................................................ 81 Francesca T. Royster • Condi, Cleopatra, and the Performance ofCelebrity ......... 103 Ayanna Thompson • Shakespeare's Female Icons: Doing and Embodying ............. 115 Performance Reviews Peter J. Smith • The 2012 Season at London's Globe Theatre ............................... 123 Michael W. Shurgot • The 2011 Oregon Shakespeare Festival.. ........................... 131 Laura Estill • The 2011 Stratford Festival: Richard III and Shakespeare's Will ... 147 Owen E. Brady • The 2011 Stratford Festival: Titus Andronicus ....................... 155 Cameron Hunt McNabb • The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park: As You Like It (2012) ..................................................................................... 161 Book Reviews Anna Riehl Bertolet • Representations ofElizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi ........................................................ 166 David L. Orvis • What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space, by Kathryn Schwarz ......................................................................... 168 Ryan Singh Paul • Shakespeare Thinking, by Philip Davis ................................. 171 Clemson University Digital Press Vol. XXXI Digital Facsimile Wesley Kisting • Shakespeare's Freedom, by Stephen Greenblatt ........................ 174 M. Tyler Sasser • Shakespeare I Adaptation I Modern Drama: Essays in Honour ofjill L. Levenson, ed. Randall Martin and Katherine Scheil ....................... 177 Nancy Selleck • Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer .............. 180 Erin Felicia Labbie • Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within, by James W. Stone ............................................. 182 Letter from the Editor .......................................................................................... 4 Introducing Upstart: A journal ofEnglish Renaissance Studies ............................. 164 List of IDustrations "Come to my woman's breasts ... '' (21). From Macbeth: The Graphic Novel. Copyright© Classical Comics .................................................................... 89. "Come, you spirits ...." From Manga Shakespeare. Copyright © Self Made Hero. 2008. Illustrations by Robert Deas ............................................................... 95 "Out, out, brief candle ...." From Manga Shakespeare. Copyright © Self Made Hero. 2008. Illustrations by Robert Deas ..................................................... 97 "Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth" by John Singer Sargent. Tate Gallery, London .. 116 Peter Macon (Macbeth) and Robin Goodrin Nordli (Lady Macbeth) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 production of Macbeth ...................... 118 Julius Caesar: Frankie J. Alvarez as Metellus Cimber, Vilma Silva as Julius Caesar, Brooke Parks as Marullus ............................................................... 122 The Taming ofthe Shrew: Samantha Spiro as Katherina and Simon Paisley Day as Petruchio, The Globe Theatre ................................................................ 124 As You Like It: Deirdre Mullins as Rosalind, The Globe Theatre ........................ 126 Richard Ill: Johnny Flynn as Lady Anne and Mark Rylance as Richard Ill, The Globe Theatre ................................................................................................ 129 Love's Labor's Lost: Tiffany Rachelle Stewart as Maria, Kate Hurster as The Princess of France, Christine Albright as Katherine, and Stephanie Beatriz as Rosaline, Oregon Shakespeare Festival ................................................... 133 2 Henry IV: The Set and Cast Ensemble, Oregon Shakespeare Festival ............. 134 julius Caesar: Vilma Silva as Julius Caesar and Jonathan Haugen asBrutus, Oregon Shakespeare Festival ...................................................................... 138 Measure for Measure: Stephanie Beatriz as lsabela, Frankie J. Alvarez as Claudio, and Anthony Heald as Vecentio. Oregon Shakespeare Festival ................... 141 Measure for Measure: Stephanie Beatriz as lsabela and K. T. Vogt as Francisca, Oregon Shakespeare Festival ...................................................................... 143 Clemson University Digital Press Vol. XXXI Digital Facsimile Richard III: Seana McKenna as King Richard and Wayne Best as Duke of Buckingham, Stratford Shakespeare Festival.. ........................................ 148 Richard III: Martha Henry as Queen Margaret and Wayne Best as the Duke of Buckingham, Stratford Shakespeare Festival.. ......................................... 150 Shakespeare's Will: Seana McKenna as Anne Hathaway, Stratford Shakespeare Festival .............................................................................................................. 152 Titus Andronicus: Claire Lautier as Tamora, Brendan Murray as Chiron, E. B. Smith as Alarbus, Dion Johnstone as Aaron, Bruce Godfree as Demetrius, Josh Epstein as Quintus, Dylan Trowbridge as Martius, Stratford Shakespeare Festival ................................................................................... 156 Titus Andronicus: Amanda Lisman as Lavinia, Claire Lautier as Tamora, E. B. Smith as Alarbus, Stratford Shakespeare Festival ............................................ 157 As You Like It: Renee Elise Goldsberry as Celia and Lily Rabe as Rosalind, Shakespeare in the Park.............................................................................. 161 As You Like It: Lily Rabe as Rosalind, Shakespeare in the Park .......................... 162 We are grateful to our contributors for making every effort to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publisher will be pleased to make the necessary arrangement at the first opportunity. We thank the several festivals and the theater companies for their cooperation and assistance in the reproduction of images from recent performances. Clemson University Digital Press Vol. XXXI Digital Facsimile Dear Readers, It is a particular pleasure to introduce Volume 31 (2012), "Shakespeare's Fe­ male Icons," featuring an essay section guest edited by Francesca Royster of DePaul University. Drawing from a 2010 Shakespeare Association of America seminar, this