This updated and revised edition of Shakespeares Heartbeat offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to demonstrate, play and perform sensory games based on two of Shakespeares most popular plays with autistic people of all ages....Lasīt vairāk
This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning to Shakespeares conception of theatre and how he purposefully invites the clowns anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy....Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of the language of Shakespeare with English by examining the role Shakespeares works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that continue to shape the li...Lasīt vairāk
This new examination of Shakespeares four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeares dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place....Lasīt vairāk
In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring social order. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has s...Lasīt vairāk
Strategic Shakespeare demonstrates the value of humanities-trained scholars as leaders in higher education. It features contributions from Renaissance and Shakespearean scholars, who collectively aim to leverage traditional assumptions about Shakesp...Lasīt vairāk
Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitchs studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern s...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration brings together theatre artists, currently and formerly incarcerated actors, and college-in-prison educators and students, describing powerful encounters in classrooms and rehearsal rooms as they explore...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeares Exiles addresses fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeares most eccentric big men....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeares poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular words in a particular order render his dialogue distinctive and create supreme literary and dramatic value....Lasīt vairāk
This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeares works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses on two main questions: How can Shakespeare be danced?, and Ho...Lasīt vairāk
At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic and literary tradition in England, concerned with the impact of metropolitan culture. Drawing upon an archive of early modern dramatic...Lasīt vairāk
Igor Djordjevic explores the historiography of Holinsheds Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance men and women read and understood historical texts. This study revaluates our understanding of Renaissance chronicle history a...Lasīt vairāk
In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and times of one of the greatest actors of seventeenth-century England. She examines his involvement in the Jacobean/Caroline world as citize...Lasīt vairāk
Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic descri...Lasīt vairāk
Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers an overdue assessment of the relationship between the dramatic efforts of the universities and early modern male identity. Taking in...Lasīt vairāk
The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of western and central Europe, as well as the Indian sub-continen...Lasīt vairāk
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. Combining original analysis with carefully compiled, comprehensive reference data, the author...Lasīt vairāk
Applying current political theory on nationhood and methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected histor...Lasīt vairāk
