The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and performance / edited by James C. Bulman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bulman, James C., 1947- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Other Title:

Handbook of Shakespeare and performance

Shakespeare and performance

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours of the discipline. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from around the world, reveal how these critical cross-currents are influencing the ways we now view Shakespeare in performance.

Contents:

Slapstick against Stereotypes in South Sudan's Cymbeline / Rose Elfman

Reveries of a Shakespearean Walker / Robert Conkie

Shakespeare and the Contemporary: Psychology, Culture and Audience in Othello Production / Bridget Escolme

Open and closed: workshopping Shakespeare in South Africa / Colette Gordon

Shakespeare's Rebirth: performance in music, dance, theatre, and cinema in the age of electro-digital reproduction / Anthony R. Guneratne

'Nobody's Perfect': Cross-Dressing and Gender-Bending in Sven Gade's Hamlet and Julie Taymor's Tempest / Samuel Crowl

Captive Shakespeare / Ton Hoenselaars

Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation-State / Alexa Huang

Global Shakespeare and Globalized Performance / Dennis Kennedy

Not-Shakespeare and the Shakespearean Ghost / Peter Kirwan

Making 'Music at the Editing Table': Echoing Verdi in Welles' Othello / Scott Newstok

Can the Subaltern Sing? Liz White's Othello / Courtney Lehmann

There Is a World Elsewhere: Shakespeare on the Chinese Stage / Li Ruru

Shakespeare with and without its Language / Sonia Massai

Documenting the Demotic: Actor Blogs and the Guts of the Opera Singer / Cary M. Mazer

Archives and Anecdotes / Paul Menzer

'Victim of Improvisation' in Latin America: Shakespeare Out-sourced and In-taken / Alfredo Michel Modenessi

Intimate and Epic Macbeths in Contemporary Performance / Katherine Prince

Global Cultural Tourism at Canada's Stratford Festival: The Adventures of Pericles / Robert Ormsby

'It's All a Bit of a Risk': Reformulating 'Liveness' in Twenty-First Century Performances of Shakespeare / Stephen Purcell

The time is out of joint: Shakespeare, jet lag, and the rhythms of performance / Robert Shaughnessy

Verbal and Visual Representations in Modern Japanese Shakespeare Productions / Michiko Suematsu

(How) Should We Listen to Audiences?: Race, Reception, and the Audience Survey / Ayanna Thompson

Performance in Digital Editions of Shakespeare / Sarah Werner

Shakespearean Technicity / W.B. Worthen

Translating Performance: the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive / Yong Li Lan

Dialectical Shakespeare: Pedagogy in Performance / Andrew James Hartley

Forgetting Performance / Peter Holland

Technology and the Ethics of Spectatorship / Pascale Aebischer

Shakespeare for Dummies, or 'See the Puppets Dallying' / Carol Chillington Rutter

Indigenizing Shakespeare in South Africa / Adele F. Seeff

Shakespeare's Property Ladder: Women Directors and the Politics of 'Ownership' / Kim Solga

Introduction: Cross-Currents in Performance Criticism / James C. Bulman

'Deared by Being Lacked': The Realist Legacy and the Art of Failure in Shakespearean Performance / Roberta Barker

Experimental Shakespeare / Susan Bennett

Performance, Presence, and Personal Responsibility: Witnessing Global Theatre in and around the Globe / Christie Carson

High Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe: Ivo van Hove's Roman Tragedies and the Problem of Spectatorship / Thomas Cartelli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 1, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191792151

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.