A companion to Shakespeare and performance / edited by Barbara Hodgdon and W.B. Worthen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodgdon, Barbara, 1932-2018.

Worthen, William B., 1955-

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Television adaptations--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (706 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

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 wri

Contents:

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Kind of History; Part I Overviews: Terms of Performance; 1 Reconstructing Love: King Lear and Theater Architecture; 2 Shakespeare's Two Bodies; 3 Ragging Twelfth Night: 1602, 1996, 2002-3; 4 On Location; 5 Where is Hamlet? Text, Performance, and Adaptation; 6 Shakespeare and the Possibilities of Postcolonial Performance; Part II Materialities: Writing and Performance; 7 The Imaginary Text, or the Curse of the Folio; 8 Shakespearean Screen/Play

9 What Does the Cued Part Cue? Parts and Cues in Romeo and Juliet10 Editors in Love? Performing Desire in Romeo and Juliet; 11 Prefixing the Author: Print, Plays, and Performance; Part III Histories; 12 Shakespeare the Victorian; 13 Shakespeare Goes Slumming: Harlem '37 and Birmingham '97; 14 Stanislavski, Othello, and the Motives of Eloquence; 15 Shakespeare, Henry VI and the Festival of Britain; 16 Encoding/Decoding Shakespeare: Richard III at the 2002 Stratford Festival; 17 Performance as Deflection; 18 Maverick Shakespeare

19 Inheriting the Globe: The Reception of Shakespearean Space and Audience in Contemporary Reviewing20 Performing History: Henry IV, Money, and the Fashion of the Times; Part IV Performance Technologies, Cultural Technologies; 21 ''Are We Being Theatrical Yet?'': Actors, Editors, and the Possibilities of Dialogue; 22 Shakespeare on the Record; 23 SShockspeare: (Nazi) Shakespeare Goes Heil-lywood; 24 Game Space/Tragic Space: Julie Taymor's Titus; 25 Shakespeare Stiles Style: Shakespeare, Julia Stiles, and American Girl Culture; 26 Shakespeare on Vacation; Part V Identities of Performance

27 Visions of Color: Spectacle, Spectators, and the Performance of Race 28 Shakespeare and the Fiction of the Intercultural; 29 Guying the Guys and Girling The Shrew:(Post)Feminist Fun at Shakespeare's Globe; 30 Queering the Audience: All-Male Casts in Recent Productions of Shakespeare; 31 A Thousand Shakespeare's: From Cinematic Saga to Feminist Geography or, The Escape from Iceland; 32 Conflicting Fields of Vision: Performing Self and Other in Two Intercultural Shakespeare Productions; Part VI Performing Pedagogies; 33 Teaching Through Performance

34 ''The eye of man hath not heard, / The ear of manhath not seen'': Teaching Tools for Speaking ShakespeareIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610237265

9781782684961

1782684964

9781280237263

1280237260

9781405165068

1405165065

9780470996706

0470996706

9781405150231

1405150238

OCLC:

244175234