Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
and Prefixing the author: print, plays, and performance / W.B. Worthen. pt. I. Overview: Terms of performance. Reconstructing love: King Lear and theatre architecture / Peggy Phelan ; Shakespeare's two bodies / Peter Holland ; Ragging Twelfth night: 1602, 1996, 2002-3 / Bruce R. Smith ; On location / Robert Shaughnessy ; Where is Hamlet? Text, performance, and adaptation / Margaret Jane Kidnie ; Shakespeare and the possibilities of postcolonial performance / Ania Loomba. -- pt. II. Materialities: writing and performance. The imaginary text, or the curse of the folio / Anthony B. Dawson ; Shakespearean screen/play / Laurie E. Osborne ; What does the cued part cue? Parts and cues in Romeo and Juliet / Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern ; Editors in love? Performing desire in Romeo and Juliet / Wendy Wall ; Prefixing the author: print, plays, and performance / W.B. Worthen.
Summary:
The contributors to this book have provided an engagement with the rapidly-developing field of Shakespeare performance studies, considering performance in a range of media and introducing important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry in Shakespeare and performance.
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