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9781405150231

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405150231

  • ISBN10:

    1405150238

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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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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