Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Performance

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ISBN: 9780754600466 | 0754600467
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Copyright: 12/28/2000

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The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent years. The essays in this volume testify to this burgeoning research into issues surrounding contemporary performances of plays by Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists, as well as modern trends and developments in stage and media presentations of these works.

Illustrations

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

List of Contributors

Editor's Preface

Edward J. Esche

Introduction

(2)

Shakespeare and Cultural Tourism

(18)

Dennis Kennedy

SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

(30)

The Recent Films

(12)

H.R. Coursen

(En)Gendering Desire in Performance: King Lear, Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Tadashi Suzuki's The Tale of Lear

(16)

Yoko Takakuwa

NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONTEXTS

(96)

Touring in Asia: The Miln Company's Shakespearean Productions in Japan

(20)

Kaori Kobayashi

Interculturalism or Indigenization: Modes of Exchange, Shakespeare East and West

(16)

Poonam Trivedi

Berlin--Zurich--Dusseldorf: Aspects of German Theatre During the Nazi Period and After

(20)

Wilhelm Hortmann

Gentlemen You Are Welcome to Elsinore: Hamlet in Performance at Kronborg Castle, Elsinore

109

(12)

Niels B. Hansen

Culture Clustering, Gender Crossing: Hamlet Meets Globalization in Robert Lepage's Elsinore

121

(16)

Nigel Wheale

`The Homestead of History': Shakespearean Medievalism on the Mid-Victorian Stage

137

(10)

Richard W. Schoch

RENAISSANCE CONTEXTS

147

(92)

Falstaff's Page as Early Modern Youth at Risk

149

(12)

Mark H. Lawhorn

Fashion, Nation and Theatre in Late Sixteenth-Century London

161

(16)

Janette Dillon

The Italian Job: The Poetics of Graced Performance in the Commedia dell' Arte and in Jonson's Humour Plays

177

(14)

Rocco Coronato

The True Physiognomy of a Man: Richard Tarlton and His Legend

191

(20)

Peter Thomson

`'Tis a pageant / To keep us in false gaze': Othello, Virtual History and the Jacobean Audience's Turkish Expectations

211

(28)

Mark Hutchings

FROM TEXT TO PERFORMANCE

239

(80)

Don Pedro, Don John and Don ... who? -- Noting a Stranger in Much Adoodle-do

241

(20)

Pamela Mason

`The Silent Griefs Which Cut the Heart Strings': John Ford's The Broken Heart in Performance

261

(14)

Kristin Crouch

Cunning with Pistols: Observations on Gale Edward's 1996--7 RSC Production of John Webster's The White Devil

275

(18)

Nick Tippler

The Nineteenth-Century Productions of A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608)

293

(12)

Barry Gaines

The Magnetic Lady: Is the Unperformed Performable?

305

(14)

Peter Happe

FEMALE ROLES

319

(38)

`A Woman's generall: what should we feare?': Queen Margaret Thatcherized in Recent Productions of 3 Henry VI

321

(18)

Randall Martin

The Disappearing Queen: Looking for Isabel in Henry V

339

(18)

Diana E. Henderson

Index

357

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