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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Gemma Miller teaches in the English Department at King’s College London, at Ithaca College London Centre and for Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and her writing has been published in Comparative Drama , The Journal of International Women’s Studies , Shakespeare and Shakespeare Bulletin. Vorwort This book provides a study of Shakespeare’s child characters in performance on stage and film over the past four decades. It argues that far from being mere supernumeraries, these child characters are key to unlocking the meanings of the plays and, through their manifestation in performance, serve as vital indicators of social concerns. Zusammenfassung Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decades, this study addresses how Shakespeare's child characters are reflected, refracted and reinterpreted in performance. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates close reading, semiotics, childhood studies, queer theory and performance studies, Gemma Miller explores how a close analysis of Shakespeare’s child characters, both in the text and in performance, can reveal often uncomfortable truths about contemporary ideas of childhood, as well as offer fresh insights into the plays.Among the works and productions analysed are stage productions of Richard III by Sean Holmes and Thomas Ostermeier; Jamie Lloyd’s and Michael Boyd’s stage productions of Macbeth and the films of Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel; Deborah Warner’s stage production of Titus Andronicus and filmed adaptations by Jane Howell and Julie Taymor; and stage productions of The Winter's Tale by Nicholas Hytner, and by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford, and the ballet adaptation by Christopher Wheeldon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Notes on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1From the facsimile page to the plastic princes: the effacement of childhood in Richard III Chapter 2‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’: The janus-faced child in Macbeth Chapter 3‘Behold the child’: the burden of futurity in Titus Andronicus Chapter 4‘No age’: disappearing childhood in The Winter's Tale Conclusion Performing childhood: Shakespeare and beyond References Notes Index...
