Short History of Shakespeare in Performance - From the Restoration to the Twenty-First Century

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 Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Shakespeare in the Restoration; 3. 'Old Shakespeare's Ghost'; 4. Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Shakespeare the Victorian; 6. Modern Shakespeare; 7. Shakespeare's Voices, Shakespeare's Spaces; 8. Global Shakespeare.

Zusammenfassung

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 Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Schoch, Richard (Queen's University Belfast) Schoch, Richard (Queen''s University Belfast) Schoch, Schoch Richard
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108714440
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71444-0
• Seiten: 75
• Serien: Elements in Shakespeare Perfor; Elements in Shakespeare Performance
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Shakespeare; theatre; performance; drama