A Companion to Shakespeare And Performance

by Hodgdon, Barbara; Worthen, W. B.

• ISBN13: 9781405111041
• ISBN10: 1405111046
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media, including in print, in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video, in multimedia and digital forms. Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry in Shakespeare and performance. Raises questions about the dynamic interplay between Shakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performance and performance studies. Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers, and professional theatre makers.

Author Biography

Barbara Hodgdon is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor Emerita at Drake University. Her previous publications include The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare’s History (1991), The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts (1997), and The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations (1998). She was guest editor for a special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly (2002) on Shakespeare films and is currently editing The Taming of the Shrew for the Arden 3 series.

W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Barnard College. He is the author of The Idea of the Actor (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (1997), Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (2003), and Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (2006). He is also the editor of several volumes, including the Wadsworth Anthology of Drama.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xvi
Introduction: A Kind of History	1	(10)
Barbara Hodgdon
Part I Overviews: Terms of Performance	11	(128)
Reconstructing Love: King Lear and Theatre Architecture	13	(23)
Peggy Phelan
Shakespeare's Two Bodies	36	(21)
Peter Holland
Ragging Twelfth Night: 1602, 1996, 2002--3	57	(22)
Bruce R. Smith
On Location	79	(22)
Robert Shaughnessy
Where is Hamlet? Text, Performance, and Adaptation	101	(20)
Margaret Jane Kidnie
Shakespeare and the Possibilities of Postcolonial Performance	121	(18)
Ania Loomba
Part II Materialities: Writing and Performance	139	(92)
The Imaginary Text, or the Curse of the Folio	141	(21)
Anthony B. Dawson
Shakespearean Screen/Play	162	(17)
Laurie E. Osborne
What Does the Cued Part Cue? Parts and Cues in Romeo and Juliet	179	(18)
Simon Palfrey
Tiffany Stern
Editors in Love? Performing Desire in Romeo and Juliet	197	(15)
Wendy Wall
Prefixing the Author: Print, Plays, and Performance	212	(19)
W. B. Worthen
Part III Histories	231	(166)
Shakespeare the Victorian	233	(16)
Richard W. Schoch
Shakespeare Goes Slumming: Harlem '37 and Birmingham '97	249	(18)
Kathleen McLuskie
Stanislavski, Othello, and the Motives of Eloquence	267	(18)
John Gillies
Shakespeare, Henry VI and the Festival of Britain	285	(12)
Stuart Hampton-Reeves
Encoding/Decoding Shakespeare: Richard III at the 2002 Stratford Festival	297	(22)
Ric Knowles
Performance as Deflection	319	(16)
Miriam Gilbert
Maverick Shakespeare	335	(24)
Carol Chillington Rutter
Inheriting the Globe: The Reception of Shakespearean Space and Audience in Contemporary Reviewing	359	(17)
Paul Prescott
Performing History: Henry IV, Money, and the Fashion of the Times	376	(21)
Diana E. Henderson
Part IV Performance Technologies, Cultural Technologies	397	(112)
``Are We Being Theatrical Yet?'': Actors, Editors, and the Possibilities of Dialogue	399	(16)
Michael Cordner
Shakespeare on the Record	415	(22)
Douglas Lanier
SShockspeare: (Nazi) Shakespeare Goes Heil-lywood	437	(20)
Richard Burt
Game Space/Tragic Space: Julie Taymor's Titus	457	(21)
Peter S. Donaldson
Shakespeare Stiles Style: Shakespeare, Julia Stiles, and American Girl Culture	478	(16)
Elizabeth A. Deitchman
Shakespeare on Vacation	494	(15)
Susan Bennett
Part V Identities of Performance	509	(116)
Visions of Color: Spectacle, Spectators, and the Performance of Race	511	(16)
Margo Hendricks
Shakespeare and the Fiction of the Intercultural	527	(23)
Yong Li Lan
Guying the Guys and Girling The Shrew: (Post)Feminist Fun at Shakespeare's Globe	550	(14)
G. B. Shand
Queering the Audience: All-Male Casts in Recent Productions of Shakespeare	564	(24)
James C. Bulman
A Thousand Shakespeares: From Cinematic Saga to Feminist Geography or, The Escape from Iceland	588	(22)
Courtney Lehmann
Conflicting Fields of Vision: Performing Self and Other in Two Intercultural Shakespeare Productions	610	(15)
Joanne Tompkins
Part VI Performing Pedagogies	625	(34)
Teaching Through Performance	627	(17)
James N. Loehlin
``The eye of man hath not heard, / The ear of man hath not seen'': Teaching Tools for Speaking Shakespeare	644	(15)
Peter Lichtenfels
Index	659