Shakespeare and tourism / edited by Robert Ormsby and Valerie Clayman Pye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ormsby, Robert, editor.

Pye, Valerie Clayman, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies

Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Homes and haunts.

Shakespeare, William.

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Literary landmarks.

Literary journeys.

Heritage tourism.

Drama festivals.

cultural tourism.

Homes.

Theater.

Physical Description:

xvii, 310 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

"Shakespeare and Tourism provides a dialogical mapping of Shakespeare studies and touristic theory through a collection of essays by scholars on a wide range of material. This volume examines how Shakespeare tourism has evolved since its inception, and how the phenomenon has been influenced and redefined by performance studies, the prevalence of the World Wide Web, developments in technology, and the globalization of Shakespearean performance. Current scholarship recognizes Shakespearean tourism as a thriving international industry, the result of centuries of efforts to attribute meanings associated with the playwright's biography and literary prestige to sites for artistic pilgrimage and the consumption of cultural heritage. Through bringing Shakespeare and tourism studies into more explicit contact, this collection provides readers with a broad base for comparisons across time and location, and thereby encourages a thorough reconsideration of how we understand both fields"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

"Memorials and the things of fame" : matter, imagination, and the early modern theatrical souvenir / Jennifer Holl

Forgotten Shakespeare Shottery : the Shakespeare Tavern and nineteenth-century tourism / Katherine Scheil

"Less we forget ..." : the Blackfriars, Error, and necropolitan tourism / Paul Menzer and David Meldman

Home of Shakespeare : a history of cultural heritage engagement at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust / Nick Walton and Darren Freebury-Jones

All the world's many stages : Shakespeare, tourism, and theater / Parmita Kapadia

"I am here as a tourist" : on being a tourist-spectator / Stephen Purcell

Globeish : the travelling Pop-up Globe / Mark Houlahan

Asian Shakespeare tourism / Rebekah R. Bale and Henrique Fátima Boyol Ngan

Festivalizing Shakespeare in Languedoc : the emergence of cultural heritage tourism in southern France, 1950s-1970s / Florence March and Jean Vivier

Festival Shakespeare and Newfoundland as tourist place / Robert Ormsby

"Stay awhile" : tourist spectatorship at European international Shakespeare festivals / Rowena Hawkins

"Some rare, noteworthy object in thy travel" : digital kitsch and shakespeare cultural memory / Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes

Shakespeare's Globe "360" : virtual tourism, transmedial performance, and the reconstructed playhouse / Valerie Clayman Pye

"You are here" : curatorial interventions for the displaced visitor at the Rose Playhouse Historical Site from 1999 to 2019 / Johanna Schmitz

Afterword / Susan Bennett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare and tourism (2023). Shakespeare and tourism.

ISBN:

9780367152048

0367152045

9781032316130

1032316136

OCLC:

1312652239