1st Edition
Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance
Introduction 1: "Honour the real thing": Gregory Doran’s Titus Andronicus in South Africa 2: The Legacy of Colonisation: Don C. Selwyn’s The Maori Merchant of Venice and Aotearoa New Zealand 3: Sexuality, Trauma and Community: The Tempest, Philip Osment’s This Island’s Mine and Gay Sweatshop 4: Theatres of War: Nicholas Hytner’s Henry V
Biography
Catherine Silverstone is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
"Timely as well as distinctive, Silverstone's book makes a significant contribution to Shakespeare performance studies and, more broadly, to cultural history." - Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan, USA
"Silverstone’s engagement with trauma theory is intricate and adroit...Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance...is an eloquent invitation to attend carefully to what it might mean to see violence performed, and what it might mean to witness it." - Emma Cox, Contemporary Theatre Review
"This is a fluent and stimulating study which is both well researched and alive to the theatrical implications arising from the interaction of Shakespearian productions and their cultural situations." - Peter J. Smith, Year's Work in English Studies
