Shakespeare in Performance,9780312233112

Shakespeare in Performance

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ISBN13: 9780312233112
ISBN10: 0312233116
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2000-09-02
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This collection stages the debates between theory and practice that have transformed our understanding of Shakespeare in performance in recent years. Drawing upon textual theory, materialist cultural criticism, new historicism, feminism, postcolonialism, and psychoanalysis, the essays address Shakespeare's plays as texts in and for performance in a variety of contexts, ranging from the Renaissance to the present. The collection not only offers readers new ways of thinking about Shakespeare in the theatre, but also highlights the practical and theoretical potential of performance itself as a means of redefining Shakespeare in contemporary culture.

Author Biography

Robert Shaughnessy is Principal Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
General Editor's Preface ix
Introduction 1(23)
Robert Shaughnessy
Stage Space and the Shakespeare Experience
24(18)
J. L. Styan
The Arrow in Nessus: Elizabethan Clues and Modern Detectives
42(19)
Alan C. Dessen
The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism
61(17)
W. B. Worthen
Bifold Authority in Shakespeare's Theatre
78(22)
Robert Weimann
`To Represent such a Lady'
100(23)
Kathleen McLuskie
Text and Performance: The Taming of the Shrew
123(19)
Graham Holderness
Race and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello
142(29)
Michael D. Bristol
Royal Shakespeare: Theatre and the Making of Ideology
171(23)
Alan Sinfield
Robert Lepage's Intercultural Dream Machine
194(24)
Barbara Hodgdon
Acting against Bardom: Some Utopian Thoughts on Workshops
218(17)
Simon Shepherd
Further Reading 235(5)
Notes on Contributors 240(3)
Index 243

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