A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance

by Editor: Barbara Hodgdon (Drake University ); Editor: W. B. Worthen (University of Michigan)

• ISBN13: 9781405150231
• ISBN10: 1405150238
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Kind of History

Overviews: Terms of Performance

Reconstructing Love: King Lear and Theatre Architecture

Shakespeare's Two Bodies

Ragging Twelfth Night 1602, 1996, 2002-3

On Location

Where is Hamlet? Text, Performance, and Adaptation

Shakespeare and the Possibilities of Postcolonial Performance

Materialities: Writing and Performance

The Imaginary Text, or, The Curse of the Folio

Shakespeare Screen/Play

What does the Cued Part Cue? Parts and Cues in Romeo and Juliet

Editors in Love? Performing Desire in Romeo and Juliet

Prefixing the Author: Print, Plays, and Performance

Histories

Shakespeare the Victorian

Shakespeare Goes Slumming: Harlem '37 and Birmingham '97

Stanislavski, Othello, and the Motives of Eloquence

Shakespeare, Henry VI, and the Festival of Britain

Encoding/Decoding Shakespeare: Richard III at the 2002 Stratford Festival

Performance as Deflection

Maverick Shakespeare

Inheriting the Globe: The Reception of Shakespearian Space and Audience in Contemporary Reviewing

Performing History: Henry IV, Money, and the Fashion of the Times

Performance Technologies, Cultural Technologies

"Are We Being Theatrical Yet?": Actors, Editors, and the Possibilities of Dialogue

Shakespeare on the Record

Sshockspeare: (Nazi) Shakespeare Goes Heil-lywood

Game Space/Tragic Space: Julie Taymor's Titus

Shakespeare Stiles Style: Shakespeare, Julia Stiles, and American Girl Culture

Shakespeare on Vacation

Identities of Performance

Visions of Color: Spectacle, Spectators, and the Performance of Race

Shakespeare and the Fiction of the Intercultural

Guying the Guys and Girling The Shrew: (Post)Feminist Fun at Shakespeare's Globe

Queering the Audience: All-Male Casts in Recent Shakespeare Productions

A Thousand Shakespeares: From Cinematic Saga to Feminist Geography; or, The Escape from Iceland

Conflicting Fields of Vision: Performing Self and Other in Two Intercultural Shakespeare Productions

Performing Pedagogies

Teaching through Performance

"The eye of man hath not heard,/The ear of man hath not seen": Teaching Tools for Speaking Shakespeare

Index

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