New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity

✍ Scribed by Paul Edmondson; Ewan Fernie (editors)

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity documents and analyses the different ways in which a range of innovative projects take Shakespeare out into the world beyond education and the theatre. Mixing critical reflection on the social value of Shakespeare with new creative work in different forms and idioms, the volume triumphantly shows that Shakespeare can make a real contribution to contemporary civic life. Highlights include: Garrick's 1769 Shakespeare ode, its revival in 2016, and a devised performance interpretation of it; the full text of Carol Ann Duffy's A Shakespeare Masque (set to music by Sally Beamish); a new Shakespearean libretto inspired by Wagner; an exploration of the civic potential of new Shakespeare opera and ballet; a fresh Shakespeare-inspired poetic liturgy, including commissions by major British poets; a production of The Merchant of Venice marking the 500th anniversary of the Venetian Jewish Ghetto; and a remaking of Pericles as a response to the global migrant crisis.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part One: After Garrick
1. Reviving Garrick
2. A Shakespeare Masque: Reflections on an Anniversary Commission with Sally Beamish and Carol Ann Duffy
3. Shakespeare Unbard: Negotiating Civic Shakespeare
Part Two: New Places; New Forms
4. Communities in the Theatre and in the World: Three Ballets and a Masque
5. Seeing More Clearly with the Eyes of Love: A Liturgy for Voices Based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6. The Marina Project
Part Three: New Places: Europe
7. Shakespeare’s German Place: Weimar and the Jubilees, 1864/2014
8. On Romeo and Juliet and Civic Crisis in Contemporary Verona
9. Shylock in the Thinking Machine: Civic Shakespeare and the Future of Venice
10. Mastersinger Shakespeare!
Part Four: New Places: North America
11. New Places for Civic Shakespeare in America
12. Shakespeare and Theatre at the Civic Intersection
Afterword: Civic Shakespeares
Notes
Index