Shakespeare broadcasts and the question of value / Beth Sharrock, University of Warwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharrock, Beth, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare and text

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Television adaptations.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

94 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This Element investigates the framing 'texts' of Shakespeare's works in live theatre broadcasts produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Despite growing engagement from scholars of digital Shakespeares with the phenomenon of broadcast theatre and the aesthetics of filmed productions, the paratexts which accompany the live-streams − live or pre-recorded features, including interviews and short films − have largely been ignored. The Element considers how RSC live broadcasts of rarely performed, often critically maligned works are mediated for contemporary audiences, focusing on The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014), Titus Andronicus (2017), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (2018). It questions the role of the theatre institution as a powerful broker in the (re)negotiation of hierarchies of value within Shakespeare's canon. Individual sections also trace the longer genealogies of paratextual value-narratives in print, proposing that broadcast paratexts be understood as participating in a broader history of Shakespearean paratexts in print and performance.

Contents:

Introduction: "This goodly frame"

Young and free: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014)

Alt-Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus (2017)

Fictions of composition: The Merry Wives of Windsor (2018)

Conclusion: "What is aught, but as 'tis valued?'"

Appendix: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014) broadcast transcript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-94) and index.

ISBN:

9781009418003

1009418009

OCLC:

1473687498