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Informationen zum Autor Robert Shaughnessy Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
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Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at the Guilford School of Acting, University of Surrey, UK.
