Shakespeare and Realism (eBook)
148 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-68393-171-3 (ISBN)
This collection of essays examines the works of the most famous writer of plays in the English language within the most culturally pervasive genre in which they are performed. Though Realist productions of Shakespeare are central to the ways in which his work is produced and consumed in the 21st century-and has been for the last 100 years-scholars are divided on the socio-political, historical, and ethical effects of this marriage of content and style. The book is divided into two sections, the first of which focuses on how Realist performance style influences our understanding of Shakespeare's characters. These chapters engage in close readings of multiple performances, interrogating the ways in which actors' specific characterizations contribute to extremely varied interpretations of a single character.The second section then considers audiences' experiences of Shakespearean texts in Realist performance. The essays in this section-all written by theatre directors-imagine out what might constitute Realism. Each chapter focuses on a particular production, or set of productions by a single company, and considers how the practitioners utilized critically informed notions of what constitutes ';the real' to reframe what Realism looks like on stage.This is a book of arguments by both theatre practitioners and scholars. Rather than presenting a unified critical position, this collection seeks to stimulate the debate around Realist Shakespeare performance, and to attend to the political consequences of particular aesthetic choices for the audience, as well as for Shakespeare critics and theatre artists.
Peter Lichtenfels is a professor in the Theatre and Dance Department at University of California, Davis. He teaches in the Undergraduate, MFA in Dramatic Arts, and PhD Performance Studies programs.Josy Miller is Arts Education Programs Specialist for the California Arts Council. A theatre director and scholar, she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionJosy Miller Part 1Realism and Shakespearean Character1The Trouble with Bertram: Experiencing Stanislavsky in All’s Well That Ends WellRoberta Barker and Kim Solga2Shakespearean Character at the Fin du SieclePeter Kanelos3Violence and Consensual Imagination in A Midsummer Night’s DreamYu Jin Ko Part 2Shakespearean Realism(s) and the Audience4“Never, Never, Never, Never, Never”: On Shakespearean Realism and the Question of Empathy Josy Miller5Allo-Realism and Intensive-Extensive Shakespeares: Transversal Theater Company’s Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Titus AndronicusSam Kolodezh & Bryan Reynolds6Directing RealismPeter Lichtenfels Appendix A. Theatre, Now: A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Shanghai Dramatic Arts CenterWorks CitedIndexAbout the ContributorsAbout the Editors
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.7.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Shakespeare and the Stage |
Co-Autor | Roberta Barker, Yu Jin Ko, Sam Kolodezh, Peter Lichtenfels, Josy Miller, Bryan Reynolds, Kim Solga |
Zusatzinfo | 4 Illustrations including: - 4 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | directing • English literature • Literary criticism • Literary Studies • Naturalism • Realism • Shakespeare |
ISBN-10 | 1-68393-171-8 / 1683931718 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-68393-171-3 / 9781683931713 |
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