Shakespeare and the cultures of performance / edited by Paul Yachnin and Patricia Badir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yachnin, Paul Edward, 1953-

Badir, Patricia, 1976-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in performance and early modern drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Theater--Production and direction--History.

Theater.

Theater--Production and direction.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2008]

Contents:

Shakespeare and the theatrical performance of rusticity / David Bevington

Payback time : on the economic rhetoric of revenge in the Merchant of Venice / Linda Woodbridge

To give and to receive: performing exchanges in the Merchant of Venice / Sean Lawrence / To "gase so much at the fine stranger" : Armado and the politics of English in Love's labour's lost / Lynne Magnusson

"Does not the stone rebuke me" : the Pauline Rebuke and Paulina's Lawful magic in the Winter's tale / Huston Diehl

Shakespeare and secular performance / Anthony B. Dawson

Discharging less than the tenth part of one : performance anxiety and in Troilus and Cressida / Gretchen E. Minton

Forbidden mixtures : Shakespeare in blackface minstrelsy, 1844 / Coppélia Kahn

The tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the cultures of performance : Prospero, Gielgud, Rylance / Gordon McMullan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780754655855

0754655857

OCLC:

145732883