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Book SynopsisGemma Kate Allred is a doctoral researcher at the Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Benjamin Broadribb is a doctoral researcher at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
Erin Sullivan is Reader in Shakespeare at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
Trade ReviewA remarkably cathartic read. * Shakespeare Survey *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cultural Cartography of The Digital Lockdown Landscape Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) Part One: Analyses 1. The Screen Language of Lockdown: Connection and Choice in Split-Screen Performance
John Wyver (University of Westminster, London, UK) 2. Lockdown Shakespeare and the Metamodern Sensibility
Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 3. Notions of Liveness in Lockdown Performance
Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 4. Creation Theatre and Big Telly’s
The Tempest: Digital Theatre and the Performing Audience
Pascale Aebischer and Rachael Nicholas (University of Exeter, UK) 5. Immersion in a Time of Distraction: ‘The Under Presents:
Tempest’
Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 6. What You Will in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring the Digital Arts, Race and Flexible Resistance
David Sterling Brown (Trinity College, Connecticut, USA ) and Ben Crystal (The Shakespeare Ensemble, Global) Part Two: Case Studies 7. ‘Shakespeare for Everyone’ The Show Must Go Online
in conversation with Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 8. Ricardo II: una producción bilingüe de Merced Shakespearefest
William Wolfgang (University of Warwick, UK) and Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 9. ‘Your play needs no excuse’
CtrlAltRepeat in conversation with Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 10. ‘Are we all met?’: Responding to Shakespeare’s Canon through Online Community Performance
Jennifer Moss Waghorn, Katrin Bauer, Sarah Hodgson, Diane Lowman, Kathryn Twigg and Martin Wiggins (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 11. ‘Present fears are less than horrible imaginings’
Big Telly Theatre Company in conversation with Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 12. Teaching Shakespearean Performance in Lockdown
Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Sarah Hatchuel (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France) and Yu Umemiya (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) in conversation with Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) Part Three:
Lockdown Digital Arts: An Extended Year in Review Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Benjamin Broadribb and Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) I. Spring II. Summer III. Autumn IV. Winter / Spring
Conclusion: Shakespeare after Lockdown Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) Notes Index
