Shakespeare and Tourism provides a dialogical mapping of Shakespeare studies and touristic theory through a collection of essays by scholars on a wide range of material.
This volume examines how Shakespeare tourism has evolved since its inception, and how the phenomenon has been influenced and redefined by performance studies, the prevalence of the World Wide Web, developments in technology, and the globalization of Shakespearean performance. Current scholarship recognizes Shakespearean tourism as a thriving international industry, the result of centuries of efforts to attribute meanings associated with the playwright’s biography and literary prestige to sites for artistic pilgrimage and the consumption of cultural heritage.
Through bringing Shakespeare and tourism studies into more explicit contact, this collection provides readers with a broad base for comparisons across time and location, and thereby encourages a thorough reconsideration of how we understand both fields.
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Contributor Bio’s
Introduction
Part 1 - The History of Shakespeare Tourism
Chapter 1: "Memorials and the things of fame": Matter, Imagination, and the Early Modern Theatrical Souvenir
Jennifer Holl, Rhode Island College
Chapter 2: Forgotten Shakespeare Shottery: The Shakespeare Tavern and Nineteenth-Century Tourism"
Katherine Scheil, University of Minnesota
Part 2 - Shakespeare and Cultural Tourism
Chapter 3: "Less we forget…": The Blackfriars, Error, and Necropolitan Tourism
Paul Menzer and David Meldman, Mary Baldwin University
Chapter 4: Home of Shakespeare: A History of Cultural Heritage Engagement at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Nick Walton and Darren Freebury-Jones, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Chapter 5: All the World’s Many Stages: Shakespeare, Tourism, and Theater
Parmita Kapadia, Northern Kentucky University
Part 3 - Shakespearean Tourism and the ‘Other’
Chapter 6: "I am here as a tourist": On Being a Tourist-spectator
Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick
Chapter 7: Globeish: The Travelling Pop-up Globe
Mark Houlahan, Unversity of Waikato
Chapter 8: Asian Shakespeare Tourism
Dr. Rebekah R. Bale, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and Dr. Henrique Fátima Boyol Ngan, Institute for Tourism Studies Macao.
Part 4 - Local, National, and Global Shakespeare Festivals
Chapter 9: Festivalizing Shakespeare in Languedoc: The Emergence of Cultural Heritage Tourism in Southern France, 1950s-1970s
Florence March, IRCL, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier and Jean Vivier, IRCL, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier
Chapter 10: Festival Shakespeare and Newfoundland as Tourist Place
Robert Ormsby, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Chapter 11: "Stay awhile": Tourist spectatorship at European International Shakespeare Festival’s
Rowena Hawkins, King’s College London
Part 5 - Technology and Shakespeare Tourism
Chapter 12: "Some rare, noteworthy object in thy travel": Digital Kitsch and Shakespeare Memes
Valerie M. Fazel, Arizona State University, and Louise Geddes, Adelphi University
Chapter 13: Shakespeare’s Globe "360": virtual tourism, transmedial performance, and the reconstructed playhouse
Valerie Clayman Pye, LIU Post
Chapter 14: "You are here": Curatorial Interventions for The Displaced Visitor at The Rose Playhouse Historical Site from 1999 to 2019
Johanna Schmitz, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Afterword
Susan Bennett, University of Calgary
Index
Biography
Robert Ormsby is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Valerie Clayman Pye is Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Management and Associate Professor of Theatre at Long Island University, Post.
