Staging Shakespeare - Essays in Honor of Alan C. Dessen

BDThe twelve essays in this volume explore the relationships between Shakespearean pedagogy, performance, and scholarship. The volume consists of four sections: 'Acts of Recovery,' which includes essays that take an historicist approach to performance concerns; 'Performing the Moment,' in which the authors describe their experiences staging a particular Shakespearean scene in an actual production; 'Recordings,' or analyses of Shakespearean productions that were preserved on film or audiotape; and 'Extensions and Explorations,' discussions of adaptations and variations of Shakespeare's plays on stage. Throughout the volume the authors examine the ways in which performance criticism and performance studies illuminate our approaches to those text

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Edited by Lena Cowen Orlin and Miranda Johnson-Haddad

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• Authors: Lena Cowen Orlin, Lena Johnson-Haddad Cowen Orlin, Lena Cowen Johnson-Haddad Orlin
• Assisted by: Lena Cowen Orlin (Editor), Miranda Johnson-Haddad (Editor), Lena Cowen Orlin (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611493245
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-324-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literary reference works