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Writing Performative Shakespeares: New Forms for Performance Criticism
Rob Conkie
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Description for Writing Performative Shakespeares: New Forms for Performance Criticism
hardcover. This original and innovative study offers the reader an inventive analysis of Shakespeare in performance. Num Pages: 280 pages, 51 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
This innovative study offers a genuinely groundbreaking approach to Shakespeare in performance. Six chapters work like case studies, each highly creative in terms of visual form and structure - including puzzles, comics and pinboards - inviting the reader into playful engagement with the performative dimensions of Shakespearean production. The case studies include discussion of training and rehearsal processes; the materiality of the performance event and its various embodiments; the intertextual citations through which productions make meaning; and, in response to all of this, the multiplicity and variety of audience perspectives and interpretations. Conkie's production choices range from original practices to ... Read more
This innovative study offers a genuinely groundbreaking approach to Shakespeare in performance. Six chapters work like case studies, each highly creative in terms of visual form and structure - including puzzles, comics and pinboards - inviting the reader into playful engagement with the performative dimensions of Shakespearean production. The case studies include discussion of training and rehearsal processes; the materiality of the performance event and its various embodiments; the intertextual citations through which productions make meaning; and, in response to all of this, the multiplicity and variety of audience perspectives and interpretations. Conkie's production choices range from original practices to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107072992
SKU
V9781107072992
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Ref
99-18
About Rob Conkie
Rob Conkie is Senior Lecturer of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Victoria. His research integrates practical and theoretical approaches to Shakespeare in performance. He is the author of The Globe Theatre Project: Shakespeare and Authenticity (2006) and has published articles in journals including Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin and Shakespeare Survey.
Reviews for Writing Performative Shakespeares: New Forms for Performance Criticism
'This is an ambitious and innovative book, which breaks genuinely new ground in Shakespeare performance studies, and which will make a significant contribution to the field ... There are plenty of Shakespeareans who work practically, and many who work in conversation with professional practitioners, but relatively few who subject this experience to the kind of searching interrogation that is found ... Read more