| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Play's not the only thing / Antoni Cimolino -- Global Othello, then and now : the 2015 Royal Shakespeare Company production in context / Christina Luckyj -- Shakespeare, spectators, and the meaning of race on stage / Lauren Eriks Cline -- "Slutty clown speaks the prologue" : cross-gender casting on the Toronto stage / Roderick H. Mckeown -- Two productions of the Two Gents : from the Globe stage to the Royal Shakespeare Company, 2012-2014 / Christie Carson -- Embodying the sea : Shakespeare and physical theatre / Linda McJannet -- Shakespeare's social work : from displacement to placement in Twelfth Night / Julia Reinhard Lupton -- Lessons from a street fighter : reconsidering Romeo and Juliet / Russell J. Bodi -- Rooting for Shakespeare : cooking through Timon of Athens / David B. Goldstein -- "Redeeming time" : the dramatization of desistance in Henry IV / Jeffrey R. Wilson -- Nutshells and open trials : editing and cinematography in live broadcast Shakespeare / R.W. Jones -- Filming theatre : a tale of two Merchants / Peter Holland -- Shakespeare adaptation in the age of the camera phone : spectacle and experimental seeing in Ralph Fiennes's Coriolanus / Hayley OMalley -- Indian Shakespeare trilogy : Maqbool, Omkara, and Haider / Amrita Sen -- Queering Will and Kit : slash and the Shakespeare biopic / Lisa S. Starks -- Star Trek's Shakespeare problem / Brandon Christopher -- Retelling Macbeth for the digital age : the multimodal poetics of Sleep No More / Jacob Claflin -- Square brackets and performance choices : considering the Shakespearean stage direction / Gina Hausknecht -- "Nor understood none neither" : why it might be time to think seriously about Shakespeare in modern English / Eric Spencer |
| Summary |
"Today, debates about the cultural role of the humanities and the arts are roiling. Responding to renewed calls to reassess the prominence of canonical writers, Shakespeare On Stage and Off introduces new perspectives on why and how William Shakespeare still matters. Lively and accessible, the book considers what it means to play, work, and live with Shakespeare in the twenty-first century. Essays engage with contemporary stagings of his plays to explore the effect of performance practices on understandings of identity, death, love, race, gender, class, and culture. Providing an original approach to thinking about Shakespeare, other essays ask how the knowledge and skills associated with working lives can illuminate the playwright's works. Contributors look at ways of interacting with Shakespeare in the digital age, from film and television to live theatre broadcasts, social media, and online instructional tools. Together, the essays in this volume speak to how Shakespeare continues to enrich contemporary culture. A timely guide to the ongoing importance of Shakespearean drama, Shakespeare On Stage and Off surveys recent developments in performance, adaptation, popular culture, and education."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptation
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
Literary criticism -- Shakespeare.
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Theater
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Graham, Kenneth J. E. (Kenneth John Emerson), 1960- editor.
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Kolentsis, Alysia, 1976- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020416286 |
| ISBN |
9780228000068 |
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0228000068 |
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9780228000075 |
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0228000076 |
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9780773559240 |
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0773559248 |
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0773559256 |
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9780773559257 |
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