This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism.
Katherine Steele Brokaw is associate professor of English and Theatre at University of California Merced, USA, co-founding artistic director of Shakespeare in Yosemite, and co-founder of the EarthShakes Alliance. She is the author of Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early English Drama (2016) and has published articles and reviews in several journals and essay collections. With Jay Zysk she co-edited Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare (2019), and she edited Macbeth for the Arden Performance Editions series (2019).
Innehållsförteckning
1. Community Shakespeare: Access, Adaptation, Activism.- 2. Public Shakespeare: Public Works (New York City) and Public Acts (UK).- 3. Identity Shakespeare: L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Company and Harlem Shakespeare Festival.- 4. Island Shakespeare: Hamlet in the Faroe Islands.- 5. Ecological Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Yosemite and the EarthShakes Alliance.