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This collection of modern essays by leading figures in the field of Shakespeare scholarship reveals the rich interplay between contemporary theoretical approaches - psychoanalytic, new historicist, feminist and cultural materialist - and the study of the play in performance, both in Shakespeare's time and our own. Examining the representation of power, ideology, class, race and gender in a wide range of playtexts and theatrical contexts, the essays explore Shakespeare's performance possibilities in theory and in practice.
List of contents
Introduction; R. Shaughnessy
Stage Space and the Shakespeare Experience; J. L. Styan
The Arrow in Nessus: Elizabethan Clues and Modern Detectives; A. C. Dessen
The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism; W. B. Worthen
Bifold Authority in Shakespeare's Theatre; R. Weimann
'To Represent such a Lady'; K. McLuskie
Text and Performance: The Taming of the Shrew; G. Holderness
Race and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello; M. D. Bristol
Royal Shakespeare: Theatre and the Making of Ideology; A. Sinfield
Robert Lepage's Intercultural Dream Machine; B. Hodgdon
Acting against Bardom: Some Utopian Thoughts on Workshops; S. Shepherd
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
About the author
Robert Shaughnessy
Summary
This collection of modern essays by leading figures in the field of Shakespeare scholarship reveals the rich interplay between contemporary theoretical approaches - psychoanalytic, new historicist, feminist and cultural materialist - and the study of the play in performance, both in Shakespeare's time and our own.
