This innovative study offers a genuinely groundbreaking approach to Shakespeare in performance. Six chapters work like case studies; each highly creative in terms of visual form and structure ndash; including puzzles; comics and pinboards ndash; inviting the reader into playful engagement with the performative dimensions of Shakespearean production. The case studies include discussion of training and rehearsal processes; the materiality of the performance event and its various embodiments; the intertextual citations through which productions make meaning; and; in response to all of this; the multiplicity and variety of audience perspectives and interpretations. Conkies production choices range from original practices to politicised adaptations; small-scale workshops to multimedia spectacles; offering inventive analyses of what Shakespeare might mean; or can be made to mean; at particular times and in specific places; at the start of the twenty-first century.
2016-04-13 2016-04-13File Name: B01E84D3RA
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