Shakespeare's Culture in Modern Performance is an original study at the interface of a historicizing literary criticism and the study of modern performance. In a critical climate that views the cultural object of performance as authentic in itself, is there any point in exploring a script's original
Shakespeareโs Culture in Modern Performance
โ Scribed by Maria Jones (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 223
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Performing Shakespeareโs Culture....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Producing Consent in The Taming of the Shrew....Pages 19-56
Defining the Alien in The Merchant of Venice....Pages 57-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Opheliaโs Flowers....Pages 103-136
Richardโs Crown....Pages 137-173
Conclusion: Prop and Word....Pages 174-177
Back Matter....Pages 178-213
โฆ Subjects
Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; British and Irish Literature; Performing Arts
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