Elements in Shakespeare Performance – serie
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23 produkter
Extended Reality Shakespeare
Häftad, 2024
291 kr
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This Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes the understanding of theatre and Shakespeare. It shows how the inclusion of augmented and virtual realities in performance can reconfigure the senses of the experiencers, enabling them to engage with …
Shakespeare's Visionary Women
Häftad, 2023
354 kr
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Shakespeare's visionary women, usually confined to the periphery, claim centre stage to voice their sleeping and waking dreams. These women recount their visions through acts of rhetoric, designed to persuade and, crucially, to directly intervene in political action. The visions discussed in this …
Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence
Häftad, 2024
347 kr
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The Infinite Monkey Theorem is an idea frequently encountered in mass market science books, discourse on Intelligent Design, and debates on the merits of writing produced by chatbots. According to the Theorem, an infinite number of typing monkeys will eventually generate the works of Shakespeare. …
Shakespeare without Print
Av Paul Menzer
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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Everything we know about Shakespeare - his world, his words, his work - is preconceived by print. This knowledge extends to cultural expressions that seek to evade ink, paper, and moveable type, such as performance, such as acting. Print privileges qualities quite alien to performance, however: …
Early Modern Media Ecology
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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The early modern world was as enigmatic as it was dynamic. New epistemologies and technologies, open controversies about the world and afterworld, encounters with various cultures, and numerous forms of entertainment wetted the appetite for ever-new sensational experiences, an emerging visual …
Shakespeare and the Restoration Repertory
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
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This Element provides the first comprehensive study of William Davenant's Shakespeare adaptations within the broader context of the Restoration repertory. Moving beyond scholarship that tends to isolate Restoration Shakespeare from the other plays produced alongside it, this Element reveals how …
Staging Disgust
Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare and Middleton
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in affect, disgust. It explores both the textual "performance" of affect, how …
Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance
Häftad, 2024
318 kr
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This Element focuses on Sleep No More, the iconic immersive theatre production of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance frames this Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system of ghostly citationality through which audiences …
Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet
Av Katherine Steele Brokaw, Elizabeth Freestone
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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Given the many environmental crises facing the planet, we need to use all tools to address them, including Shakespearean theatre. This Element explains why Shakespeare is well-positioned to be an eco-playwright, how theatre-makers can adapt his plays to matter now, and how to make more ecological …
Site-Specific Shakespeare
Häftad, 2026
354 kr
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From ruined convents to rooftop gardens, parking lots to Zoom calls, theatre practitioners around the world are staging Shakespeare in a variety of unconventional and unexpected spaces. Drawing on practitioner interviews, case studies, and ten years of personal experience, this Element argues …
Performing Visible Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
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This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. It examines the connections between a character's costume and the changing social conventions of pregnancy. It questions mid twentieth century productions' reduction and elimination of well-established …
Stoicism as Performance in Much Ado about Nothing
Acting Indifferently
Häftad, 2019
354 kr
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This Element demonstrates how Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of the philosophy of Stoicism as performance, rather than as intellectual doctrine. To do this, it explores how, despite many early modern cultural institutions' suppression of Stoicism's theatrical capacity, …
A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance
From the Restoration to the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2021
354 kr
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This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and …
Haunting History Onstage
Shakespeare in the USA and Canada
Häftad, 2019
354 kr
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In 2016, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Stratford Festival of Canada mounted marathons through Shakespearean history to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare with Tug of War and Breath of Kings. Both productions invited parallels to contemporary political events in …
About Shakespeare
Bodies, Spaces and Texts
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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This Element addresses the question of what Shakespeare in contemporary performance is about, and whether it really is, as it may claim to be, about Shakespeare. Far from charting a smooth journey from page to stage, the work of making Shakespeare into performances often involves deflection, …
Shakespearean Charity and the Perils of Redemptive Performance
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare. These films emerge in response to four historical and discursive developments: the rise of reality television and its emphasis on the emotional transformation of …
Shakespearean Futures
Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare's Stages Today
Av Amy Cook
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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Casting is the process by which directors assign parts to actors, creating the idea of the character for the audience. Casting is how we rehearse change, as we come to see an expanded repertoire of the kinds of bodies that are selected to play the lead, the hero, and the villain. This Element …
Approaching the Interval in the Early Modern Theatre
The Significance of the 'Act-Time'
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could be attended to, if necessary. The origin of the five-act, four-interval play was not classical drama but candle technology. This Element explores the implications of this aspect of …
Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare
Edward's Boys
Häftad, 2020
347 kr
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This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory …
Shakespeare, Blackface and Race
Different Perspectives
Av Coen Heijes
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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This Element addresses the topical debate on blackface, race and Othello. With Shakespeare performance studies being rather Anglo-centric, the author explores how this debate has taken a radically different course in the Netherlands, a country historically perceived as tolerant and culturally close …
Robert Lepage's Intercultural Encounters
Häftad, 2021
354 kr
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This study returns to the origins of Robert Lepage's directorial work and his first cross-cultural interaction with a Shakespearean text to provide some background for his later work. This early work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s. …
Viral Shakespeare
Performance in the Time of Pandemic
Häftad, 2022
318 kr
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This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers how the archival recordings of Shakespeare …
This Distracted Globe
Attending to Distraction in Shakespeare's Theatre
Häftad, 2023
452 kr
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This Element attends to attention drawn away. That the Globe is a 'distracted' space is a sentiment common to both Hamlet's original audience and attendees at the reconstructed theatre on London's Bankside. But what role does distraction play in this modern performance space? What do attitudes to …
