Shakespeare in Performance

ISBN-13: 9780333741238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 246 str.

Opis

This collection of modern essays by leading figures in the field of Shakespeare scholarship reveals the interplay between contemporary theoretical approaches psychoanalytic, new historicist, feminist and cultural materialist and the study of the play in performance, both in Shakespeare's time and our own. Examining the representation of power, ideology, class, race and gender in a wide range of playtexts and theatrical contexts, the essays explore Shakespeare's performance possibilities in theory and in practice.

Spis treści

Introduction; R. Shaughnessy.- Stage Space and the Shakespeare Experience; J. L. Styan.- The Arrow in Nessus: Elizabethan Clues and Modern Detectives; A. C. Dessen.- The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism; W. B. Worthen.- Bifold Authority in Shakespeare's Theatre; R. Weimann.- 'To Represent such a Lady'; K. McLuskie.- Text and Performance: The Taming of the Shrew; G. Holderness.- Race and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello; M. D. Bristol.- Royal Shakespeare: Theatre and the Making of Ideology; A. Sinfield.- Robert Lepage's Intercultural Dream Machine; B. Hodgdon.- Acting against Bardom: Some Utopian Thoughts on Workshops; S. Shepherd.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Principal Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton.