Performing Transversally Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future

by Reynolds, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9780312293314
• ISBN10: 0312293313
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays- Hamlet , Othello , Macbeth , Taming of the Shrew, T itus Andronicus , Henry V , The Tempest , and Coriolanus -and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, reevaluating the critical methodologies that characterize them, in regard to issues of cultural difference, authorship, representation, agency, and iconography. Reynolds demonstrates the value of his "investigative-expansive mode," outlining a "transversal poetics" that points toward a critical future that is more aware of its subjective interconnectedness with the topics and audiences it seeks to engage than is reflected in most Shakespeare criticism and literary-cultural scholarship.

Author Biography

Bryan Reynolds is Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Seeing Across Shakespeare; J. Reinelt

Transversal Performance: Shakespace, the September 11 Attacks, and the Critical Future; B. Reynolds

The Making of Authorships: Transversal Navigation in the Wake of Hamlet, Robert Wilson, Wolfgang Wiens, and Shakespace; D.J. Hopkins & B. Reynolds

Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power?: Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls; J. Fitzpatrick & B. Reynolds (with additional dialogue by Bryan Reynolds & Janna Segal)

'What is the city but the people?': Transversal Performance and Radical Politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Brecht's Coriolan; B. Reynolds

Untimely Ripped: Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare; B. Reynolds

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Know What I Mean, Know What I Mean?: A Theoretical Approach to Performance for Post-Cinema Shakespeare; D.J. Hopkins, C. Ingman & B. Reynolds

'A little touch of Harry in the night': Translucency and Projective Transversality in the Sexual and National Politics of Henry V; D. Hedrick & B. Reynolds

Inspriteful Ariels: Transversal Tempests; B. Reynolds & A. Thompson

'For such a sight will blind a father's eye': The Spectacle of Suffering in Taymor's Titus; C. Lehmann, B. Reynolds & L. Starks

Friend or Foe, Shakespeare's Ends is the Means: Revising Early Modern English Iconography, Elisabetta Points Toward the Critical Future; B. Reynolds & J. Segal

Afterword: Walk Like an Egyptian; J. Gil Harris

Appendix: Transversal Poetics; I.E. Mode; Notes on Collaborators