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