Description
This is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance by an international team of leading scholars. It includes pioneering essays, contributions from practitioners, overviews of resources, and opportunities for further research.
About the Author
Peter Kirwan is Associate Professor of Early Modern Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. His books include Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha (2015) and the co-edited collections Shakespeare and the Digital World (with Christie Carson, 2014) and Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (with Emma Depledge, 2017). He is Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin, Book Reviews Editor for Early Theatre and Editions Reviewer for Shakespeare Survey. Kathryn Prince is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Ottawa, Canada, as well as the General Editor of Shakespeare Bulletin. Her recent books include Performing Early Modern Drama Today (with Pascale Aebischer, 2012), History, Memory, Performance (with David Dean and Yana Meerzon, 2014), and Shakespeare and Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves (with Irena Makaryk, 2016).
Reviews
A major new volume in Shakespeare studies ... this research handbook is truly triumphant: Kirwan and Prince have produced an indispensable volume for researchers at all levels. * Shakespeare Survey *
Brilliantly executed, consistently illuminating and abundantly engaging, this is an indispensable, one-stop discussion of Shakespeare and contemporary performance. Whether it is film, digital video or theatre, performance is explored in its multiple manifestations, and via content characterised by global reach and density. Attentive to mediation and reception, and featuring interviews with creatives and practitioners, The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a rich and revealing achievement. * Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UK *
In focusing on performance as a process that begins well before the proverbial curtain rises and continues long after it falls, this vibrant, politically engaged, and globally oriented collection offers readers an account of Shakespeare in contemporary performance that is at once authoritative and interrogative, comprehensive and open-ended. By foregrounding the different kinds of labour involved in the creation, reception, and history of performance, it creates a space where we can hear a more diverse range of voices talk about what Shakespearean performance means - and why it matters today - than has often been the case. * Erin Sullivan, Senior Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK *
This collection makes for an invigorating read as it injects critical energy into established debates and stretches the edges of the field just that little bit further. Contributors offer committed and thoughtful explorations of anti-racist pedagogies, ethics and cultural competence in the rehearsal room, and the structural changes organisations have to undergo in order to for them to be actively inclusive. Through thoughtful scholarship, interviews with a diverse selection of practitioners, and a range of research resources including an annotated bibliography and tour-de-force mapping of the entire field, this Handbook models what progressive Shakespeare performance studies may achieve in the coming decade. -- Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781350225169
Author Dr Peter Kirwan
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC