Shakespearean performances regularly take place at both historic sites and locations with complex resonances, such as Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London and the royal castle of Hamlet – Elsinore – in Denmark. The present issue of the Shakespeare International Yearbook examines the impact of specificities such as festivals and performance sites on our understanding of Shakespeare and globalization. Contributions survey the present state of Shakespeare studies and address issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output.
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Across the sites that these essays explore, scholars illustrate the complexity and diversity of this globally relevant and recognized Shakespeare – to understand the reproduction of his plays in the twenty-first century in those places well-known and often recognized for their contributions to contemporary knowledge of the works, but also in geogra
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List of IllustrationsPrefaceSpecial Issue: Shakespeare on Site1 Shakespeare on Site: Here, There and Everywhere Susan Bennett2 Proximal Dreams: Peter Sellars at the Stratford Festival of Canada Margaret Jane Kidnie3 The Site of Burial in Two Korean Hamlets Yu Jin Ko4 The Merchant of Ashland: The Confusing Case of an Organized Minority Response at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Jason Demeter and Ayanna Thompson5 Exhibiting the Past: Globe Replicas in Shakespearean Exhibitions Clara Calvo6 Spatial Negotiations in the Brazilian Street Production: Sua Incelença, Ricardo III by Clowns de Shakespeare Anna Stegh Camati and Liana de Camargo Leão7 Shakespeare Going Out Here and Now: Travels in China on the 450th anniversary Li Jun and Julie Sanders8 “What ceremony else?” Images of Ophelia in Brazil: The Politics of Subversion of the Female Artist Cristiane Busato Smith9 Mapping Shakespeare in Street Art Mariacristina CavecchiNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780367888367
Publisert
2019-12-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
216

Om bidragsyterne

Tom Bishop, Professor of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Alexa Huang, Professor of English, George Washington University and Research Affiliate, MIT, USA.

Susan Bennett, Professor of English, University of Calgary, Canada.