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Choreographing Shakespeare

Author : Elizabeth Klett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351238663
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing Shakespeare written by Elizabeth Klett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreographing Shakespeare presents a hitherto unexplored history of the choreographers and performers who have created dance adaptations of Shakespeare. This book investigates forty dance works in genres such as ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop, produced between 1940 and 2016 by choreographers in Britain, America, and Europe, all of which use Shakespeare’s plays and Sonnets as their source material. By combining scholarly analysis of these productions with practice-based conversations from six contemporary choreographers, Klett offers both breadth of coverage and in-depth analysis of how Shakespeare’s poetic language is translated into the usually wordless medium of dance, and shows exactly how these dance adaptations move beyond the Shakespearean texts to engage with musical and choreographic influences. Ideal for students of Shakespeare and Dance Studies, Choreographing Shakespeare explores how dance adaptations strive to design legible and intelligible stories, while ultimately celebrating the beauty of pure movement.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music

Author : Christopher R. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190945141
Total Pages : 1289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music written by Christopher R. Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 1289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--

Choreographing Discourses

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135122736X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing Discourses written by Mark Franko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field, this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of Dance and Performance Studies. What makes this volume especially appropriate for undergraduate and graduate teaching is its critical focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century dance artists and choreographers – among these, Oskar Schlemmer, Merce Cunningham, Kazuo Ohno, William Forsythe, Bill T. Jones, and Pina Bausch, some of the most high-profile European, American, and Japanese artists of the past century. The volume’s constellation of topics delves into controversies that are essential turning points in the field (notably, Still/Here and Paris is Burning), which illuminate the spine of the field while interlinking dance scholarship with performance theory, film, visual, and public art. The volume contains the first critical assessments of Franko’s contribution to the field by André Lepecki and Gay Morris, and an interview incorporating a biographical dimension to the development of Franko’s work and its relation to his dance and choreography. Ultimately, this Reader encourages a wide scope of conversation and engagement, opening up core questions in ethics, embodiment, and performativity.

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation

Author : Diana E. Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350110310
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation written by Diana E. Henderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new media forms. This comprehensive reference and research resource maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice and the methodologies that underpin them. It investigates current research and points towards future lines of enquiry for students, researchers and creative practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation. The opening section on research methods and problems considers definitions and theories of Shakespeare adaptation and emphasises how Shakespeare is both adaptor and adapted.A central section develops these theoretical concerns through a series of case studies that move across a range of genres, media forms and cultures to ask not only how Shakespeare is variously transfigured, hybridised and valorised through adaptational play, but also how adaptations produce interpretive communities, and within these potentially new literacies, modes of engagement and sensory pleasures. The volume's third section provides the reader with uniquely detailed insights into creative adaptation, with writers and practice-based researchers reflecting on their close collaborations with Shakespeare's works as an aesthetic, ethical and political encounter. The Handbook further establishes the conceptual parameters of the field through detailed, practical resources that will aid the specialist and non-specialist reader alike, including a guide to research resources and an annotated bibliography.

The Dances of Shakespeare

Author : Jim Hoskins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135483124
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Dances of Shakespeare written by Jim Hoskins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Dances of Shakespeare gives a brief introduction to how to perform all of the dance styles featured in Shakespeare's plays. Designed for the practicing director, actor, or choreographer, it gives clear instruction on how to perform popular dances of Shakespeare's day, including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances, and roundels. Accompanied by clear illustrations, these instructions allow even the dance-challenged to quickly master enough technique to suit amateur, community, college, or semi-professional productions. Other useful features include a chronological listing of popular dances similar in spirit to those of Shakespeare's days, designed for those staging Shakespeare's work in periods other than as written, as well as an appendix list of the plays grouped by what is called for in the text: a "dance," a "masque," or a specific dance form. Dances of Shakespeare is a "must have" for all student directors and performers interested in staging Shakespeare's works.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance

Author : Lynsey McCulloch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190873493
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance written by Lynsey McCulloch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's texts have a long and close relationship with many different types of dance, from dance forms referenced in the plays to adaptations across many genres today. With contributions from experienced and emerging scholars, this handbook provides a concise reference on dance as both an integral feature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and as a means of translating Shakespearean text into movement - a process that raises questions of authorship and authority, cross-cultural communication, semantics, embodiment, and the relationship between word and image. Motivated by growing interest in movement, materiality, and the body, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance is the first collection to examine the relationship between William Shakespeare - his life, works, and afterlife - and dance. In the handbook's first section - Shakespeare and Dance - authors consider dance within the context of early modern life and culture and investigate Shakespeare's use of dance forms within his writing. The latter half of the handbook - Shakespeare as Dance - explores the ways that choreographers have adapted Shakespeare's work. Chapters address everything from narrative ballet adaptations to dance in musicals, physical theater adaptations, and interpretations using non-Western dance forms such as Cambodian traditional dance or igal, an indigenous dance form from the southern Philippines. With a truly interdisciplinary approach, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance provides an indispensable resource for considerations of dance and corporeality on Shakespeare's stage and the early modern era.

A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

Author : Matthew Hodge
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666936693
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor written by Matthew Hodge and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Julie Taymor's oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance

Author : Lynsey McCulloch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019049879X
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Romeo and Juliet

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108621503
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by Shakespeare and other literature of the period, as well as with the social and cultural contexts of the day, with discussions of London and Italy, dancing and duelling, marriage, gender and sexuality. It includes detailed discussion of the play in performance from the Restoration to the present day, with a particular focus on film (including global cinema), music and dance, and also explores other adaptations and afterlives, including young-adult fiction. The edition retains the commentary and Textual Analysis of the previous editor, G. Blakemore Evans; the Textual Analysis is prefaced with a short note contextualising its conclusions in the light of more recent research.

Othello in European Culture

Author : Elena Bandín Fuertes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027257825
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Othello in European Culture by : Elena Bandín Fuertes

Download or read book Othello in European Culture written by Elena Bandín Fuertes and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapters in this volume examine non-anglophone translations and performances, alternative ways of distinguishing between texts, adaptations and versions, as well as differing perspectives on questions of gender and race. Additionally, a European perspective raises key political questions about power and representation in terms of who speaks for and about Othello, within a European context profoundly divided over questions of immigration, religious, ethnic, gender and sexual difference. The volume illustrates the ways in which Othello has been not only a stimulus but also a challenge for European Shakespeares. It makes clear that the history of the play is inseparable from histories of race, religion and gender and that many engagements with the play have reinforced rather than challenged the social and political prejudices of the period.

Shakespeare and the Dance

Author : Alan Brissenden
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852730833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Dance written by Alan Brissenden and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing was an essential part of life in Shakespeare's England. Town and country folk danced at weddings, Maydays and other festivities. Queen Elizabeth prided herself on her skill (and danced galliards in the morning to keep fit), and dancing was the soul of the extravagant masques which so delighted King James. Puritans might furiously denounce it but it was part of the ceremonial of the Inns of Court and a necessary accomplishment for a gentleman. At the same time, as Alan Brissenden shows in this book, the dance was an accepted symbol of harmony, and it was in this way that Shakespeare used it to express one of his major themes: the attempt to achieve order in a discordant world. He included it in at least a dozen of his plays and referred to it in thirty. A valuable source for his imagery, it also illuminates character and action and in some plays helps to forward the plot. In the history plays allusions to country dance, (especially the morris, and court dances like the lavolta) support ideas of conflict and the presentation of characters, especially Henry V. While there is no dancing itself in the histories there is plenty to be found in the comedies and two chapters of the book closely examine the relation of dance to dialogue, character and plot, particularly in "Love's Labour's Lost", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Much Ado About Nothing". In the tragedies dancing becomes a powerful ironic visual symbol, especially in Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Timon of Athens. After 1607 dance occurs in almost all of Shakespeare's plays, in such a way that it reflects and expresses the fusion of tragic and comic elements which characterize most of them. The closing chapters show how the dance relates to the cosmic ideas and imagery of these last plays from Perides to Henry VIII and suggest certain influences from the spectacular court masques of the time. In presenting his argument the author, who is a dance critic as well as an Elizabethan scholar, has drawn on manuscript sources, a wide range of contemporary writing, including dance manuals, and his own ideas in dance and theatre. This is a book for students and scholars, for editors, for theatre directors and for those interested in Renaissance dance. It is a book for everyone who delights in the riches of Shakespeare and the age in which he lived.

Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel

Author : Vivian Y. Kao
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030545806
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel written by Vivian Y. Kao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings film adaptation of literature to bear on the question of how nineteenth-century imperial ideologies of progress continue to inform power inequalities in a global capitalist age. Not simply the promotion of general betterment for all, improvement in the British colonial context licensed a superior “master race” to “uplift” its colonized populations—morally, socially, and economically. This book argues that, on the one hand, film adaptations of nineteenth-century novels reveal the arrogance and coercive intentions that underpin contemporary notions of development, humanitarianism, and modernity—improvement’s post-Victorian guises. On the other hand, the book also argues that the films use their nineteenth-century source texts to criticize these same legacies of imperialism. By bringing together film adaptation, postcolonial theory, and literary studies, the book demonstrates that adaptation, as both method and cultural product, provides a way to engage with the baggage of ideological heritage in our contemporary global media environment.

Choreographing History

Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253116505
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing History written by Susan Leigh Foster and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." -- Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History... assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches... [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." -- Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." -- Dance Chronicle "... [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." -- Theatre Journal Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.

The Staging of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a Ballet

Author : Camille Cole Howard
Publisher : Mellen University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Staging of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a Ballet written by Camille Cole Howard and published by Mellen University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on three stagings of Romeo and Juliet as a ballet: Vincenzo Galeotti's 1811 production of Romeo og Giulietta for the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen; Leonid Lavrovsky's 1940 full-length production for the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad; and Antony Tudor's 1943 one-act production for Ballet Theatre in New York. The ballets chosen define dance tradition at a given period or extend the dance through some crucial enlargement. Also, they reflect the aesthetic theories and tastes of their choreographers, the technique and training of the dancers, modes of artistic interpretation and performance, and, finally, the politics of the country as expressed through company production policies and selections. The book uses contemporary reports, musical scores, stage plans, production pictures, journal entries and the recorded memories of the performing and producing artists.

Images of Shakespeare

Author : International Shakespeare Association. Congress
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133295
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Images of Shakespeare written by International Shakespeare Association. Congress and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of approaches is presented in this collection, among them artists' images of Shakespeare. Victorian Hamlets, changing images of the protagonists in Romeo and Juliet, degrees of metaphor in King Lear, and Shakespeare's plays in performance.

The Swords of Shakespeare

Author : J. D. Martinez
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swords of Shakespeare written by J. D. Martinez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the principal duels in Shakespeare's plays are outlined and explained. The logic underlying each of the violent conflicts is discussed, together with textual references, to place them within the contxt of the play. Sample choreography is offered.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Author : Tom Bishop
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000985407
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean International Yearbook written by Tom Bishop and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year publishing its twentieth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field, from both hemispheres of the globe. New trends are evaluated from the point of view of established scholarship, and emerging work in the field is encouraged. Each issue includes a special section under the guidance of a specialist Guest Editor, along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture, this annual publication captures, from year to year, current and developing thought in Shakespeare scholarship and theater practice worldwide. There is a particular emphasis on Shakespeare studies in global contexts.