Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Text and Performance
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Om bidragsyterne
Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens have taught Shakespeare at pre-university and degree level for many years. They lead the English Association's ongoing involvement with transition issues and lecture and publish on a range of literary topics. They are the authors of Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation.Excellent scholarship that can set the tone for complex and thoughtful engagement in the classroom … <i>Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance</i> fills a gap in the Arden catalogue that helps to tie together the primary use of the Arden editions, pedagogy, and the expert scholarship found in the Critical Companions series … Given its wide focus on, yet clarity of explanation of, a variety of approaches to the texts, this book should become a regular feature in additional reading material on syllabuses across the English academy.
Sixteenth Century Journal
Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare’s contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today’s screen productions.
Each chapter includes:
· a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day (including The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Mariam, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet)
· close reading of the text
· discussion of early modern theatrical practices
· a focus on one ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen
· suggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading
This book provides a route map to the very latest developments in early modern drama studies, fostering confident and independent thinking, making it an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Using this book
Introduction
Text
Shakespeare’s contemporaries
Early modern drama in its time
Performing early modern drama today
1. Defining the self
Romeo and Juliet
Getting over the language: William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
The Duchess of Malfi
Moving performances: Malfi at the Blackfriars and the Globe
2. Money and the modern city
The Merchant of Venice
Playing the Jew: Al Pacino in Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Volpone
Volpone as beast fable
3. Performance and performativity
The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare goes to Hollywood: Burton and Taylor (1966)
The Tragedy of Mariam
Closet drama
4. Servants, masters and service
Othello
Performing Othello in the twenty-first century
The Changeling
Compulsion (2009)
5. Fatherhood, state and the dynamics of revenge
The Spanish Tragedy
Things on stage
Titus Andronicus
Julie Taymor’s Titus and the aesthetics of revenge
6. Transgressive desire
Measure for Measure
Casting Isabella
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover: Peter Greenaway’s theatre of blood
7. Damnation
Doctor Faustus
Performing Doctor Faustus: Stage on Screen, 2010
Hamlet
A Soviet Hamlet: Grigori Kozintsev (Lenfilm, 1964)
Glossary
References
Index