Shakespeare's Culture in Modern Performance

ISBN-13: 9780333971697 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 213 str.

Maria Jones

Opis

Shakespeare's Culture in Modern Performance is an original study at the interface of a historicizing literary criticism and the study of modern performance. In a critical climate that views the cultural object of performance as authentic in itself, is there any point in exploring a script's original history? The writer argues for a dialogic understanding of Shakespeare's plays in performance relative to unresolved issues of modernity, in a study of modern productions on stage and screen.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Performing Shakespeare's Culture PART I: WORD Producing Consent in The Taming of the Shrew Defining the Alien in The Merchant of Venice PART II: PROP Ophelia's Flowers Richard's Crown Conclusion: Prop and Word Notes Filmography Theatre Company Credits Index

O autorze

MARIA JONES is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton, specializing in Shakespeare in performance on stage and screen, and early modern cultural history.