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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance

Author : Paul Yachnin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056493
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance written by Paul Yachnin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. Thus contributors combine a formalist interest in the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle with an investment in the material cultures that both produced and received Shakespeare's plays. Six of the chapters focus on early modern cultures of performance, looking specifically at such topics as the performance of rusticity; the culture of credit; contract and performance; the cultivation of Englishness; religious ritual; and mourning and memory. Building upon and interrelating with the preceding essays, the last three chapters deal with Shakespeare and performance culture in modernity. They focus on themes including literary and theatrical performance anxiety; cultural iconicity; and the performance of Shakespearean lateness. This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.

Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox

Author : Dr Peter G Platt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409475158
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox written by Dr Peter G Platt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.

Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures

Author : Jennifer Holl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000422216
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures written by Jennifer Holl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Shakespeare and various cultures of celebrity have enjoyed a ceaselessly adaptive, symbiotic relationship since the final decade of the sixteenth century, through which each entity has contributed to the vitality and adaptability of the other. In five chapters, Jennifer Holl explores the early modern culture of theatrical celebrity and its resonances in print and performance, especially in Shakespeare’s interrogations of this emerging phenomenon in sonnets and histories, before moving on to examine the ways that shifting cultures of stage, film, and digital celebrity have perpetually recreated the Shakespeare, or even the #shakespeare, with whom audiences continue to interact. Situated at an intersection of multiple critical conversations, this book will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students of Shakespeare and Shakespearean appropriations, early modern theater, and celebrity studies.

Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance

Author : Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408157055
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance written by Farah Karim Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.

Theatre and Testimony in Shakespeare's England

Author : Holger Schott Syme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503405
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Testimony in Shakespeare's England written by Holger Schott Syme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holger Syme presents a radically new explanation for the theatre's importance in Shakespeare's time. He portrays early modern England as a culture of mediation, dominated by transactions in which one person stood in for another, giving voice to absent speakers or bringing past events to life. No art form related more immediately to this culture than the theatre. Arguing against the influential view that the period underwent a crisis of representation, Syme draws upon extensive archival research in the fields of law, demonology, historiography and science to trace a pervasive conviction that testimony and report, delivered by properly authorised figures, provided access to truth. Through detailed close readings of plays by Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare - in particular Volpone, Richard II and The Winter's Tale - and analyses of criminal trial procedures, the book constructs a revisionist account of the nature of representation on the early modern stage.

Early Modern Drama in Performance

Author : Mark Netzloff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161149513X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Drama in Performance written by Mark Netzloff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and early modern drama reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a performance critic, editor, and literary scholar. The essays by a diverse group of scholars who have been influenced by Potter address recurring themes in her work: Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, performance history and theatre practice, theatrical performance across cultures, play reviewing, and playreading. What unifies them most, though, is that they carry on the spirit of Potter’s work: her ability to meet a text, a performance, or a historical period on its own terms, to give scrupulous attention to specific details and elegantly show how these details generate larger meaning, and to recover and preserve the fleeting and the ephemeral.

Reinventing the Renaissance

Author : S. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137319402
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Renaissance written by S. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama.

Shakespeare in Asia

Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515521
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Asia written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds debate how and why Shakespeare has been used and reinvented in contemporary Asia.

Shakespeare and Amateur Performance

Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139205436
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Amateur Performance written by Michael Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Hamlet acted on a galleon off Africa to the countless outdoor productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream that now defy each English summer, Shakespeare and Amateur Performance explores the unsung achievements of those outside the theatrical profession who have been determined to do Shakespeare themselves. Based on extensive research in previously unexplored archives, this generously illustrated and lively work of theatre history enriches our understanding of how and why Shakespeare's plays have mattered to generations of rude mechanicals and aristocratic dilettantes alike: from the days of the Theatres Royal to those of the Little Theatre Movement, from the pioneering Winter's Tale performed in eighteenth-century Salisbury to the Merchant of Venice performed by Allied prisoners for their Nazi captors, and from the how-to book which transforms Mercutio into Yankee Doodle to the Napoleonic counterspy who used Richard III as a tool of surveillance"--

Shakespeare in China

Author : Xiaoyang Zhang
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874135367
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in China written by Xiaoyang Zhang and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value of the book is not limited to the scope of Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. With the combination of the literary criticism and sociological approach, it describes and investigates a variety of social and psychological phenomena in the process of cultural exchange between the West and the East. The book also provides a brief view of the social, political, and historical changes in modern China for Western readers.

Shakespeare and East Asia

Author : Alexa Alice Joubin
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN 13 : 0198703562
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and East Asia written by Alexa Alice Joubin and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2021 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK. These adaptations break new ground in sound and spectacle; they serve as a vehicle for artistic and political remediation or, in some cases, the critique of the myth of reparative interpretations of literature; they provide a forum where diasporic artists and audiences can grapple with contemporary issues; and, through international circulation, they are reshaping debates about the relationship between East Asia and Europe. Bringing film and theatre studies together, this book sheds new light on the two major genres in a comparative context and reveals deep structural and narratological connections among Asian and Anglophone performances. These adaptations are products of metacinematic and metatheatrical operations, contestations among genres for primacy, or experimentations with features of both film and theatre.

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

Author : William B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558990
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance written by William B. Worthen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the idea of Shakespearean authority is still invested in the activities of directing, acting, and scholarship.

Shakespeare and Modern Theatre

Author : Michael Bristol
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134601190
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Modern Theatre written by Michael Bristol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Shakespeare and Latinidad

Author : Trevor Boffone
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147448851X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Latinidad written by Trevor Boffone and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity

Author : A. Guneratne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023061373X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity written by A. Guneratne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.

Performing Transversally

Author : Bryan Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137107642
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Performing Transversally written by Bryan Reynolds and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays - Hamlet , Othello , Macbeth , Taming of the Shrew , Titus Andronicus , Henry V , The Tempest , and Coriolanus - and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, re-evaluating the critical methodologies that characterize them, in regard to issues of cultural difference, authorship, representation, agency, and iconography. Reynolds demonstrates the value of his 'investigative-expansive mode,' outlining a 'transversal poetics' that points toward a critical future that is more aware of its subjective interconnectedness with the topics and audiences it seeks to engage than is reflected in most Shakespeare criticism and literary-cultural scholarship.

Shakespeare Performance Studies

Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139993070
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Performance Studies written by W. B. Worthen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a 'performance studies' perspective on Shakespearean theatre, W. B. Worthen argues that the theatrical event represents less an inquiry into the presumed meanings of the text than an effort to frame performance as a vehicle of cultural critique. Using contemporary performances as test cases, Worthen explores the interfaces between the origins of Shakespeare's writing as literature and as theatre, the modes of engagement with Shakespeare's plays for readers and spectators, and the function of changing performance technologies on our knowledge of Shakespeare. This book not only provides the material for performance analysis, but places important contemporary Shakespeare productions in dialogue with three influential areas of critical discourse: texts and authorship, the function of character in cognitive theatre studies, and the representation of theatre and performing in the digital humanities. This book will be vital reading for scholars and advanced students of Shakespeare and of Performance Studies.