Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past

ISBN-13: 9780415073257 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 208 str.

Susan Bennett;Bennett Susan

Opis

Contemporary culture is obsessed with the past. And contemporary performance is obsessed with Shakespeare. Why does Shakespeare so often perform the nostalgic role of reviving a better past for modern audiences? And what do radical rewritings of Shakespeare's plays say both to and about their audiences? This is an inquiry into how Shakespeare is reproduced today. It looks at the enduring influence he has on present-day performance, and questions how inter-cultural and cross-cultural productions reconfigure him for alternative performances. An attempt is made to speak across many divides - from literature to theatre, from theory to practice.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 NEW WAYS TO PLAY OLD TEXTS; Chapter 2 PRODUCTION AND PROLIFERATION; Chapter 3 NOT-SHAKESPEARE, OUR CONTEMPORARY; Chapter 4 THE POST-COLONIAL BODY?; Chapter 5 ASIDES;

O autorze

Susan Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (Routledge, 1990).