Performing Restoration Shakespeare

Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660-1714), drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - crucially - theatre and music practitioners. It invites us to respond to Restoration Shakespeare on its own unique terms.

Sommario

Introduction: new Shakespeare for a new era Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Claude Fretz, and Richard Schoch; Part I. Documents of Performance: 1. From boards to books: the circulation of Shakespearean songs in manuscript and print during the interregnum Sarah Ledwidge; 2. Heroic Shakespeare at Lincoln's Inn fields Stephen Watkins; 3. More than a song and dance? Identifying Matthew Locke's incidental music for Macbeth Silas Wollston; Part II. Performance History and Performance Now: 4. Cross-Dressing in restoration Shakespeare: Twelfth night and the tempest Fiona Ritchie; 5. Performing restoration Shakespeare in the eighteenth century James Harriman-Smith; 6. An actor's perspective on restoration Shakespeare Louis Butelli; 7. Staging restoration Shakespeare with restoration music Robert Eisenstein; Part III. Practice-Based Research: 8. Davenant's lady Macduff and the subversion of normative femininity in twenty-first-century performance Sara Reimers; 9. Facts as ideas: the theatricalization of scholarship Kate Eastwood Norris; 10. Syncopated time: taging the restoration tempest Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch.

Riassunto

Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714), drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - crucially - theatre and music practitioners. It invites us to respond to Restoration Shakespeare on its own unique terms.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Amanda (Syracuse University Eubanks Winkler, Amanda Fretz Eubanks Winkler
• Con la collaborazione di: Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Editore), Claude Fretz (Editore), Richard Schoch (Editore), Schoch Richard (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781009241205
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0924120-5
• Pagine: 292
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Libri scolastici per istituti a indirizzo generale; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; English, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean