Shakespeare and the challenge of the contemporary : performance, politics and aesthetics / Francesca Clare Rayner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rayner, Francesca Clare, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Portugal.

Performing arts--Portugal.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : The Arden Shakespeare, 2021

Summary:

"Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare is produced and received in different cultural contexts. Francesca Clare Rayner's original and thought-provoking book highlights the diversity and experimentalism of contemporary performance practices through a focus on unexplored performances in Portugal. This book references key debates within contemporary performance studies on intermediality, globalization and political participation and analyses their particular configurations within the Portuguese context. These case studies represent clear alternatives to the market-driven view of the contemporary as the continual reproduction of the new and the topical for global consumers. Instead, they recast the contemporary as a site of disempowerment, crisis and erasure in a Europe fragmented by economic austerity, political divisions around Brexit, ecological vacillation and an anxious refashioning of global relations between North and South."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1: Charting the Contemporary

Chapter 2: Intermedial Collaborations: Teatro Praga's Shakespeare trilogy

Chapter 3: Shakespeare and Cultural Memory: Shakespearean traces in the work of Tiago Rodrigues

Chapter 4: Staging the Nation: Nuno Cardoso's Political Shakespeares

Chapter 5: Moving the audience: Christiane Jatahy's The Walking Forest

Chapter 6: Shakespearean Travesties: mala voadora's Hamlet

Chapter 7: Eco-critical Performance: Tonan Quito's Richard III

Chapter 8: New Challenges for Contemporary Performance Criticism

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350182189

1350182184

9781350182165

1350182168

9781350182172

1350182176

OCLC:

1267764485