Shakespeare's culture in modern performance

✍ Scribed by Maria Jones

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 history? The writer argues for a dialogic understanding of Shakespeare's plays in performance relative to unresolved issues of modernity, in a study of modern productions on stage and screen.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
1 Introduction: Performing Shakespeare’s Culture......Page 14
Part I: Word......Page 30
2 Producing Consent in The Taming of the Shrew......Page 32
Subverted consent......Page 40
Forced consent......Page 49
Coaxed consent......Page 59
3 Defining the Alien in The Merchant of Venice......Page 70
Comic and tragi-comic aliens......Page 80
Aliens in Venice......Page 90
English aliens......Page 99
Part II: Prop......Page 114
4 Ophelia’s Flowers......Page 116
Green girls......Page 128
Convening for song......Page 140
5 Richard’s Crown......Page 150
The regal throne......Page 161
The hollow crown......Page 172
Afterword......Page 181
6 Conclusion: Prop and Word......Page 187
1 Introduction: performing Shakespeare’s culture......Page 191
2 Producing consent in The Taming of the Shrew......Page 193
3 Defining the alien in The Merchant of Venice......Page 197
4 Ophelia’s flowers......Page 203
5 Richard’s crown......Page 205
6 Conclusion: prop and word......Page 208
Bibliography......Page 210
Filmography......Page 219
Theatre Company Credits......Page 220
Index......Page 222