Theatre and Performance Studies 2012

Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

By Matthew Wagner

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on...

Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

Edited by John Russell Brown

The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their...

Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance

By Catherine Silverstone

Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence as...

Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge

The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

By Robert Shaughnessy

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans. In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces...

Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare

Edited by John Russell Brown

The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre’s most talented directors have brought Shakespeare’s texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story...

Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge

Crossing Gender in Shakespeare

Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within

By James W. Stone

Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his...

Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge

How to do Shakespeare

By Adrian Noble

'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes) 'How can I bring the text alive, make it vivid,...

Published November 26th 2009 by Routledge

Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation

By Margaret Jane Kidnie

'Kidnie's study presents original, sophisticated, and profoundly intelligent answers to important questions.' - Lukas Erne, University of Geneva 'This is a fine and productive book, one that will surely draw significant attention and commentary well beyond the precincts of Shakespeare studies.' -...

Published November 23rd 2008 by Routledge