Writing performative Shakespeares : new forms for performance criticism / Rob Conkie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conkie, Rob, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Theater.

Physical Description:

vii, 168 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"This innovative study offers a genuinely groundbreaking approach to Shakespeare in performance. Six chapters work like case studies, each highly creative in terms of visual form and structure - including puzzles, comics and pinboards - inviting the reader into playful engagement with the performative dimensions of Shakespearean production. The case studies include discussion of training and rehearsal processes; the materiality of the performance event and its various embodiments; the intertextual citations through which productions make meaning; and, in response to all of this, the multiplicity and variety of audience perspectives and interpretations. Conkie's production choices range from original practices to politicised adaptations, small-scale workshops to multimedia spectacles, offering inventive analyses of what Shakespeare might mean, or can be made to mean, at particular times and in specific places, at the start of the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Materialising Shakespeare

2. Sudoku Shakespeare

3. Red button Shakespeare

4. Graphic Shakespeare with Bernard Caleo

5. Engaging Shakespeare

6. Ghosting Shakespeare

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107072992

1107072999

OCLC:

934795181

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