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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.
