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Shakespeare and Realism: Shakespeare and the Stage


en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2018
This collection of essays examines the works of the most famous writer of plays in the English language within the most culturally pervasive genre in which they are performed. Though Realist productions of Shakespeare are central to the ways in which his work is produced and consumed in the 21st century-and has been for the last 100 years-scholars are divided on the socio-political, historical, and ethical effects of this marriage of content and style. The book is divided into two sections, the first of which focuses on how Realist performance style influences our understanding of Shakespeare's characters. These chapters engage in close readings of multiple performances, interrogating the ways in which actors' specific characterizations contribute to extremely varied interpretations of a single character. The second section then considers audiences' experiences of Shakespearean texts in Realist performance. The essays in this section-all written by theatre directors-imagine out what might constitute Realism. Each chapter focuses on a particular production, or set of productions by a single company, and considers how the practitioners utilized critically informed notions of what constitutes "the real" to reframe what Realism looks like on stage. This is a book of arguments by both theatre practitioners and scholars. Rather than presenting a unified critical position, this collection seeks to stimulate the debate around Realist Shakespeare performance, and to attend to the political consequences of particular aesthetic choices for the audience, as well as for Shakespeare critics and theatre artists.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781683931706
ISBN-10: 168393170X
Pagini: 166
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Shakespeare and the Stage


Notă biografică

Peter Lichtenfels is a professor in the Theatre and Dance Department at University of California, Davis. He teaches in the undergraduate, MFA in dramatic arts, and PhD performance studies programs. Josy Miller is arts education programs specialist for the California Arts Council. A theater director and scholar, she received her PhD in performance studies from the University of California, Davis.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction Josy Miller Part 1 Realism and Shakespearean Character 1 The Trouble with Bertram: Experiencing Stanislavsky in All¿s Well That Ends Well Roberta Barker and Kim Solga 2 Shakespearean Character at the Fin du Siecle Peter Kanelos 3 Violence and Consensual Imagination in A Midsummer Night¿s Dream Yu Jin Ko Part 2 Shakespearean Realism(s) and the Audience 4 ¿Never, Never, Never, Never, Never¿: On Shakespearean Realism and the Question of Empathy Josy Miller 5 Allo-Realism and Intensive-Extensive Shakespeares: Transversal Theater Company¿s Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Titus Andronicus Sam Kolodezh & Bryan Reynolds 6 Directing Realism Peter Lichtenfels Appendix A. Theatre, Now: A Midsummer Night¿s Dream for Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center Works Cited Index About the Contributors About the Editors

Descriere

This collection of essays by both theater scholars and practitioners examines the political and aesthetic consequences of the marriage of Shakespearean text and realist performance style, considering productions ranging from the early twentieth century to 2016.