This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeares plays. The author focusses on the varied significance of its presence to actors and directors; explores how the archives to chart this previously under-examined...Lasīt vairāk
This Element explores how Shakespearean theatre can address environmental crises, offering insights on adapting his plays ecologically. It discusses eco-friendly practices in theatre, from set design to outdoor performances, with examples from recen...Lasīt vairāk
This Element provides the first comprehensive study of William Davenants Shakespeare adaptations within the broader context of the Restoration repertory. Moving beyond scholarship that tends to isolate Restoration Shakespeare from the other plays pr...Lasīt vairāk
This Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes our understanding of theatre and Shakespeare. It shows how the inclusion of augmented and virtual realities in performance can reconfigure the senses of t...Lasīt vairāk
The Infinite Monkey Theorem is an idea frequently encountered in mass market science books, discourse on Intelligent Design, and debates on the merits of writing produced by chatbots. According to the Theorem, an infinite number of typing monkeys wil...Lasīt vairāk
In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could be attended to, if necessary. This Element explores how the interval affected composition and stagecraft and how amphitheatre plays w...Lasīt vairāk
This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in an affect even more intractabl...Lasīt vairāk
This Element focuses on Sleep No More, the iconic immersive theatre production of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance frames this Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system o...Lasīt vairāk
This Element introduces thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, encompasses everything from magic lanterns to puppets to fireworks, and deliberately mingling the spheres of commercial entertainment, art, and religion. It also suggests a new form of hi...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeares visionary women, usually confined to the periphery, claim centre stage to voice their sleeping and waking dreams. These women recount their visions through acts of rhetoric, designed to persuade and, crucially, to directly intervene in...Lasīt vairāk
This Element contends that Shakespeare and performance has long been dominated by a medium alien to its expression, print, a foreign government that forecloses alternative conceptualizations and practices. Everything we know about Shakespeare...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on scholarly research, artist experience, and audience behaviour, This Distracted Globe considers the disruptive, affective, phenomenological, and generative potential of distraction in contemporary performance at the Globe. This Elem...Lasīt vairāk
This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare went viral during the first lockdown of 2020 and consider...Lasīt vairāk
This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeares theatrical afterlife and i...Lasīt vairāk
This study returns to the origins of Robert Lepages directorial work and his first cross-cultural interaction with a Shakespearean text to provide some background for his later work. This early work is situated within the political and social contex...Lasīt vairāk
This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017-2020 to demonstrate how directors are using casting as the central mode of meaning-making in productions of Shakespeare....Lasīt vairāk
The first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edwards Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School (Shakespeares School) in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the...Lasīt vairāk
Through several case studies the author analyses the interaction between blackface and (institutional) racism in Dutch society and theatre and how Othello has become an active player in this debate....Lasīt vairāk
Examining documentaries depicting youths who are redeemed by Shakespeare. These films emerged in response to four historical developments: the rise of reality television; the rise of neoliberalism and emotional capitalism; the privatization of public...Lasīt vairāk
This Element demonstrates how Much Ado models an understanding of the philosophy of Stoicism as performance, rather than as intellectual doctrine. It explores how a performative understanding lived on in one of the most influential texts of the era a...Lasīt vairāk
Scholars of Shakespeares history plays, Shakespeare in performance, and fans of The Hollow Crown will all be drawn to this exploration of two marathon productions of Shakespearean histories. With an emphasis on details of the productions, the essay...Lasīt vairāk
