Catherine Silverstone (UK Queen Mary University of London)

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956451
• ISBN-10: 0415956455
• Artikelnr.: 22782889

Autorenporträt

Catherine Silverstone is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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