Shakespeare in Performance
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Description
The fourteen essays included in this collection offer a range of contributions from both new and well-established scholars to the topic of Shakespeare and performance. From traditional studies of theatrical history and adaptation to explorations of Shakespeare's plays in the circus, musical extravaganzas, the cinema, and drama at large, the collection embraces a number of performance spaces, times, and media. Shakespeare in Performance includes essays looking not only at sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stagings of the plays in England, but at productions of Shakespeare across time in the United States, France, Italy, Hungary, and Africa, underscoring the multiple embodiments and voices of Shakespeare's art and including a variety of cultural approaches. The work is ultimately occupied with a number of questions generated by these continual iterations of Shakespeare. How can we write and trace what is ephemeral? To what purpose do we maintain the memory of past performances? How does the transmediation of Shakespeare inform the most basic interpretive acts? What motivates Shakespearean theatre across political borders? What kinds of meaning are produced by decor, movement, the actor's virtuosity, the producer's choices, or the audience's response? Each essay thus, to some degree, describes and voices the now unseen.
ISBN
978-1443847827
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
City
Newcastle upon Tyne
Keywords
William Shakespeare, stage history, British plays
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles | Theatre and Performance Studies
Recommended Citation
Brown (editor), Eric C.; Rivier, Estelle; Beck (chapter 9), Misty; and Krueger (chapter 2), Misty, "Shakespeare in Performance" (2013). Faculty and Staff Books. 7.
https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/7
Comments
Beck, Misty, "Reclaiming the Pastoral: Kenneth Branagh's Curious Cameras in As You Like It ." Shakespeare in Performance. Ed. Eric Brown and Estelle Rivier. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2013.155-170.
Krueger, Misty, “From Davenant to Duffett: Staging The Tempest in the English Restoration.” Shakespeare in Performance. Ed. Eric Brown and Estelle Rivier. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. 24-47.