The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780199687169 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 656 str.

James C. Bulman

Opis

Presents the most current approaches to Shakespeare in performance, including how experimental modes of performance ensure Shakespeare's contemporaneity; how and why audiences respond to performances as they do; how technology has revolutionized our access to Shakespeare, and cultural appropriation in productions for international audiences.

Recenzje

James Bulman is to be congratulated for having amassed a diversified collection of essays with reference to the contemporaneity of Shakespeare for Western audiences.

O autorze

James C. Bulman holds the Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Chair in English at Allegheny College. General editor, with Carol Rutter, of the Shakespeare in Performance Series for Manchester University Press, he has written a performance history of The Merchant of Venice (1991) and edited anthologies on Shakespeare on Television (with H. R. Coursen, 1988), Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance (1996), and Shakespeare Re-Dressed: Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance (2008). His other books include The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy (1985), Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan (with A. R. Braunmuller, 1986), and, most recently, an edition of King Henry IV, Part Two for The Arden Shakespeare , Third Series (2016). He is a former president of the Shakespeare Association of America.