New directions in Renaissance drama and performance studies
By: edited by Sarah Werner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780230205307
Description: "This collection asks pressing questions about how and why we study performances of Renaissance drama, challenging prevailing views and suggesting new methodologies for the field. How does an emphasis on Shakespeare limit us? What can we learn from non-traditional theatre? Why should we rethink the value of studying what happens onstage?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction: What can Performance Do For Us?; S.Werner; title: PART I: WORKING WITH THE EPHEMERAL; title: One Piece at a Time; R.Shaughnessy; title: Replaying Early Modern Performances; W.N.West; title: Acts of Seizure: A Theatrical Poetics of Metonymy and Metaphor; C.Cobb; title: PART II: BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES; title: Page and Stage Again: Rethinking Renaissance Character Phenomenologically; A.J.Hartley; title: Original Practices and Revolutionary Nostalgia; P.Menzer; title: Spreading the Shakespeare Gospel, or, The Missionary Position in Modern Performance Criticism; J.Lopez; title: PART III: RESITUATING SHAKESPEARE; title: Performance Criticism Without Performance: The Study of Non-Shakespearean Drama; G.Love; title: Performing Relevance: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama on the Modern Stage; E.Smith; title: Shakespeare and Our Contemporaries; B.Escolme; title: 'Ay, there's the rub': Race and Performance Studies; A.Thompson; title: Afterword: Performing the 'Live': Cinema, Simulation, and the Death of the Real in Alex Cox's Revengers' Tragedy; C.Lehmann; title: Index.