Shakespeare and Modern Theatre: The Performance of Modernity

by Michael Bristol (Editor), Kathleen McLuskie (Editor), Christopher Holmes (Editor)

Overview

The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134601196
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/08/2005
Series:	Accents on Shakespeare
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	352 KB

About the Author

Michael Bristol, Kathleen McLuskie, Christopher Holmes

Table of Contents

List of contributors, General editor’s preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Modernity, modernism and postmodernism in the twentieth-century’s Shakespeare, 2 ‘To kill a king’: the modern politics of birdicide, 3 The problem of professionalism in twentieth-century stagings of Hamlet, 4 Translation at the intersections of history, 5 Women’s work and the performance of Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company, 6 Shakespearean performativity, 7 Heresies of style: some paradoxes of Soviet Ukrainian modernism, 8 ‘Lice in fur’: the aesthetics of cheek and Shakespearean production strategy, Bibliography, Index

Editorial Reviews

I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new Accents on Shakespeare volumes in the new series edited by Terence Hawkes and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism.

Arthur F. Kinney

Accents on Shakespeare is shaping up as everything a streetwise series of books on the Bard should be: engaged, imaginative, heretical and occasionally outrageous. No one who aims to have their finger on the pulse of Shakespeare studies can afford to ignore it.

Kiernan Ryan

'A worthwhile purchase for anyone interested in modernism, Shakespeare, performance and the culture industry.' - The Magazine of Shakespeare's Globe

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