Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance - Performances on Stage and Screen

Zusatztext "Timely as well as distinctive, Silverstone's book makes a significant contribution to Shakespeare performance studies and, more broadly, to cultural history."- Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan, USA"Silverstone’s engagement with trauma theory is intricate and adroit...Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance...is an eloquent invitation to attend carefully to what it might mean to see violence performed, and what it might mean to witness it." - Emma Cox, Contemporary Theatre Review"This is a fluent and stimulating study which is both well researched and alive to the theatrical implications arising from the interaction of Shakespearian productions and their cultural situations." -Peter J. Smith, Year's Work in English Studies Informationen zum Autor Catherine Silverstone is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Klappentext This study explores the relationship between performances of Shakespeare's plays and the ways in which they engage with traumatic events and histories. It investigates the ethical and political implications of attempts to represent trauma in performance, and interrogates a range of narratives about Shakespeare, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, colonization and violence. Zusammenfassung This study explores the relationship between performances of Shakespeare’s plays and the ways in which they engage with traumatic events and histories. It investigates the ethical and political implications of attempts to represent trauma in performance, and interrogates a range of narratives about Shakespeare, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, colonization and violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: "Honour the real thing": Gregory Doran’s Titus Andronicus in South Africa 2: The Legacy of Colonisation: Don C. Selwyn’s The Maori Merchant of Venice and Aotearoa New Zealand 3: Sexuality, Trauma and Community: The Tempest, Philip Osment’s This Island’s Mine and Gay Sweatshop 4: Theatres of War: Nicholas Hytner’s Henry V ...

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Silverstone, Catherine (Queen Mary University of L Silverstone, Silverstone Catherine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2011
• EAN: 9780415956451
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95645-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, 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