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Book SynopsisA Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. * Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies.
Trade Review"The volume compiles superb essays written by an excellent cast of 34 contributors and edited by star scholars"
ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction: A Kind of History 1
Barbara Hodgdon
Part I Overviews: Terms of Performance 11
1 Reconstructing Love: King Lear and Theatre Architecture 13
Peggy Phelan
2 Shakespeare’s Two Bodies 36
Peter Holland
3 Ragging Twelfth Night: 1602, 1996, 2002–3 57
Bruce R. Smith
4 On Location 79
Robert Shaughnessy
5 Where is Hamlet? Text, Performance, and Adaptation 101
Margaret Jane Kidnie
6 Shakespeare and the Possibilities of Postcolonial Performance 121
Ania Loomba
Part II Materialities: Writing and Performance 139
7 The Imaginary Text, or the Curse of the Folio 141
Anthony B. Dawson
8 Shakespearean Screen/Play 162
Laurie E. Osborne
9 What Does the Cued Part Cue? Parts and Cues in Romeo and Juliet 179
Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern
10 Editors in Love? Performing Desire in Romeo and Juliet 197
Wendy Wall
11 Prefixing the Author: Print, Plays, and Performance 212
W. B. Worthen
Part III Histories 231
12 Shakespeare the Victorian 233
Richard W. Schoch
13 Shakespeare Goes Slumming: Harlem ’37 and Birmingham ’97 249
Kathleen McLuskie
14 Stanislavski, Othello, and the Motives of Eloquence 267
John Gillies
15 Shakespeare, Henry VI and the Festival of Britain 285
Stuart Hampton-Reeves
16 Encoding/Decoding Shakespeare: Richard III at the 2002 Stratford Festival 297
Ric Knowles
17 Performance as Deflection 319
Miriam Gilbert
18 Maverick Shakespeare 335
Carol Chillington Rutter
19 Inheriting the Globe: The Reception of Shakespearean Space and Audience in Contemporary Reviewing 359
Paul Prescott
20 Performing History: Henry IV, Money, and the Fashion of the Times 376
Diana E. Henderson
Part IV Performance Technologies, Cultural Technologies 397
21 ‘‘Are We Being Theatrical Yet?’’: Actors, Editors, and the Possibilities of Dialogue 399
Michael Cordner
22 Shakespeare on the Record 415
Douglas Lanier
23 SShockspeare: (Nazi) Shakespeare Goes Heil-lywood 437
Richard Burt
24 Game Space/Tragic Space: Julie Taymor’s Titus 457
Peter S. Donaldson
25 Shakespeare Stiles Style: Shakespeare, Julia Stiles, and American Girl Culture 478
Elizabeth A. Deitchman
26 Shakespeare on Vacation 494
Susan Bennett
Part V Identities of Performance 509
27 Visions of Color: Spectacle, Spectators, and the Performance of Race 511
Margo Hendricks
28 Shakespeare and the Fiction of the Intercultural 527
Yong Li Lan
29 Guying the Guys and Girling The Shrew: (Post)Feminist Fun at Shakespeare’s Globe 550
G. B. Shand
30 Queering the Audience: All-Male Casts in Recent Productions of Shakespeare 564
James C. Bulman
31 A Thousand Shakespeares: From Cinematic Saga to Feminist Geography or, The Escape from Iceland 588
Courtney Lehmann
32 Conflicting Fields of Vision: Performing Self and Other in Two Intercultural Shakespeare Productions 610
Joanne Tompkins
Part VI Performing Pedagogies 625
33 Teaching Through Performance 627
James N. Loehlin
34 ‘‘The eye of man hath not heard, / The ear of man hath not seen’’: Teaching Tools for Speaking Shakespeare 644
Peter Lichtenfels
Index 659
