Shakespeare, Memory and Performance
Title | Shakespeare, Memory and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Holland |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2006-11-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521863805 |
This collection by leading Shakespeare scholars, first published in 2006, brings together memory and performance.
Shakespeare's Memory Theatre
Title | Shakespeare's Memory Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Lina Perkins Wilder |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2010-11-04 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0521764556 |
Wilder examines the excessive remembering of figures such as Romeo, Falstaff, and Hamlet as a way of defining Shakespeare's theatricality.
The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Lina Perkins Wilder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Memory in literature |
ISBN | 9781138816763 |
The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. Mapping memory in key areas of Shakespeare studies, the volume then goes on to look at the role of memory in individual plays.
Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance
Title | Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Edward Yachnin |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780754655855 |
Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. The contributors strive to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.
Shakespeare in Performance
Title | Shakespeare in Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Eric C. Brown |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2014-08-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1443865796 |
The fourteen essays included in this collection offer a range of contributions from both new and well-established scholars to the topic of Shakespeare and performance. From traditional studies of theatrical history and adaptation to explorations of Shakespeare’s plays in the circus, musical extravaganzas, the cinema, and drama at large, the collection embraces a number of performance spaces, times, and media. Shakespeare in Performance includes essays looking not only at sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stagings of the plays in England, but at productions of Shakespeare across time in the United States, France, Italy, Hungary, and Africa, underscoring the multiple embodiments and voices of Shakespeare’s art and including a variety of cultural approaches. The work is ultimately occupied with a number of questions generated by these continual iterations of Shakespeare. How can we write and trace what is ephemeral? To what purpose do we maintain the memory of past performances? How does the transmediation of Shakespeare inform the most basic interpretive acts? What motivates Shakespearean theatre across political borders? What kinds of meaning are produced by décor, movement, the actor’s virtuosity, the producer’s choices, or the audience’s response? Each essay thus, to some degree, describes and voices the now unseen.
Shakespeare and Memory
Title | Shakespeare and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Hester Lees-Jeffries |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2013-08-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 019165597X |
Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern sources, theatre history, performance, material culture, and cognitive psychology and neuroscience in order to explore ideas about memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems. It argues that, when Shakespeare was writing, ideas about memory were undergoing a kind of crisis, as both the technologies of memory (print, the theatre itself) and the belief structures underpinning ideas about memory underwent rapid change. And it suggests that this crisis might be mirrored in our own time, when, despite all the increasing gadgetry at our disposal, memory can still be recovered, falsified, corrupted, or wiped: only we ourselves can remember, but the workings of memory remain mysterious. Shakespeare and Memory draws on works from all stages of Shakespeare's career, with a particular focus on Hamlet, the Sonnets, Twelfth Night, and The Winter's Tale. It considers some little things: what's Hamlet writing on? And why does Orsino think he smells violets? And it asks some big questions: how should the dead be remembered? What's the relationship between memory and identity? And is it art, above all, that enables love and beauty, memory and identity, to endure in the face of loss, time, and death?
Shakespearean Adaptation, Race and Memory in the New World
Title | Shakespearean Adaptation, Race and Memory in the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Green MacDonald |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2020-08-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030506800 |
As readers head into the second fifty years of the modern critical study of blackness and black characters in Renaissance drama, it has become a critical commonplace to note black female characters’ almost complete absence from Shakespeare’s plays. Despite this physical absence, however, they still play central symbolic roles in articulating definitions of love, beauty, chastity, femininity, and civic and social standing, invoked as the opposite and foil of women who are “fair”. Beginning from this recognition of black women’s simultaneous physical absence and imaginative presence, this book argues that modern Shakespearean adaptation is a primary means for materializing black women’s often elusive presence in the plays, serving as a vital staging place for historical and political inquiry into racial formation in Shakespeare’s world, and our own. Ranging geographically across North America and the Caribbean, and including film and fiction as well as drama as it discusses remade versions of Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespearean Adaptation, Race, and Memory in the New World will attract scholars of early modern race studies, gender and performance, and women in Renaissance drama.