Shakespearean Futures - Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare''s Stages Today

This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017-2020 to demonstrate how directors are using casting as the central mode of meaning-making in productions of Shakespeare.

List of contents

1. Building Character: Casting is How We Rehearse Change; 2. The Visible Body; 3. The Years of Five Lears; 4. 2020 Vision: Seeing the Future Not in Individuals but in the Relationship Between Objects and Storytellers.

Summary

This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017-2020 to demonstrate how directors are using casting as the central mode of meaning-making in productions of Shakespeare.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Cook, Cook Amy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108749558
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74955-8
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare Perfor; Elements in Shakespeare Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Shakespeare; casting; cognitive; race; gender