1st Edition
Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Patricia Badir and Paul Yachnin; Part 1 Shakespeare and Early Modern Cultures of Performance: Shakespeare and the theatrical performance of rusticity, David Bevington; Payback time: on the economic rhetoric of revenge in The Merchant of Venice, Linda Woodbridge; 'To give and to receive': performing exchanges in The Merchant of Venice, Sean Lawrence; To 'gase so much at the fine stranger': Armado and the politics of English in Love's Labours Lost, Lynne Magnusson; 'Does not the stone rebuke me?' The Pauline rebuke and Paulina's lawful magic in The Winter's Tale, Huston Diehl; Shakespeare and secular performance, Anthony B. Dawson. Part 2 Shakespeare and Modern Cultures of Performance: 'Discharging less than the tenth part of one': performance anxiety and/in Troilus and Cressida, Gretchen E. Minton; Forbidden mixtures: Shakespeare in blackface minstrelsy, 1844, Coppélia Khan; The Tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the cultures of performance: prospero, Geilgud, Rylance, Gordon McMullan; Afterword: 'performance', 'culture', history, Edward Pechter; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University, Canada. Patricia Badir is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
’... these essays are valuable not only for the richness of their research, but also for their engagement with a plethora of cognate scholarly debates. Questions of authorship and biography, sit alongside debates about textual and performance studies, fashioning a critically creative discussion of 'Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance.'’ Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen
