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A companion to Shakespeare and performance

Author: Barbara Hodgdon; William B Worthen
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Film adaptations Handbooks, manuals, etc
Guides, manuels, etc
Named Person: William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Hodgdon; William B Worthen
ISBN: 1405111046 9781405111041
OCLC Number: 58431741
Description: xv, 688 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction : A kind of history / Barbara Hodgdon --
Part I. Overview : Terms of performance --
Reconstructing love : King Lear and theatre architecture / Peggy Phelan --
Shakespeare's two bodies / Peter Holland --
Ragging Twelfth night : 1602, 1996, 2002-3 / Bruce R. Smith --
On location / Robert Shaughnessy --
Where is Hamlet? : text, performance, and adaptation / Margaret Jane Kidnie --
Shakespeare and the possibilities of postcolonial performance / Ania Loomba --
Part II. Materialities : writing and performance --
The imaginary text, or the curse of the folio / Anthony B. Dawson --
Shakespearean screen/play / Laurie E. Osborne --
What does the cued part cue? : parts and cues in Romeo and Juliet / Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern --
Editors in love? : performing desire in Romeo and Juliet / Wendy Wall --
Prefixing the author : print, plays, and performance / W. B. Worthen --
Part III. Histories --
Shakespeare the Victorian / Richard W. Schoch --
Shakespeare goes slumming : Harlem '37 and Birmingham '97 / Kathleen McLuskie --
Stanislavski, Othello, and the motive of eloquence / John Gillies --
Shakespeare, Henry VI and the Festival of Britain / Stuart Hampton-Reeves --
Encoding/decoding Shakespeare : Richard III at the 2002 Stratford Festival / Ric Knowles --
Performance as deflection / Miriam Gilbert --
Maverick Shakespeare / Carol Chillington Rutter --
Inheriting the Globe : the reception of Shakespearean space and audience in contemporary reviewing / Paul Prescott --
Performing history : Henry IV, money, and the fashion of the times / Diana E. Henderson --
Part IV. Performance technologies, cultural technologies --
"Are we being theatrical yet?" : actors, editors, and the possibilities of dialogue / Michael Cordner --
Shakespeare on the record / Douglas Lanier --
SShockspeare : (Nazi) Shakespeare goes heil-lywood / Richard Burt --
Game space/tragic space : Julie Taymor's Titus / Peter S. Donaldson --
Shakespeare Stiles styles : Shakespeare, Julia Stiles, and American girl culture / Elizabeth A. Deitchman --
Shakespeare on vacation / Susan Bennett --
Part V. Identities of performance --
Visions of color : spectacle, spectators, and the performances of race / Margo Hendricks --
Shakespeare and the fiction of the intercultural / Yong Li Lan --
Guying the guys and girling the shrew : (post) feminist fun at Shakespeare's Globe / G. B. Shand --
Queering the audience : all-male casts in recent productions of Shakespeare / James C. Bulman --
A thousand Shakespeares : from cinematic saga to feminist geography or, The escape from Iceland / Courtney Lehmann --
Conflicting fields of vision : performing self and other in two intercultural Shakespeare productions / Joanne Tompkins --
Part VI. Performing pedagogies --
Teaching through performance / James N. Loehlin --
"The eye of man hath not heard, / The ear of man hath not seen" : teaching tools for speaking Shakespeare / Peter Lichtenfels.
Series Title: Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
Responsibility: edited by Barbara Hodgdon and W.B. Worthen.
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