Lockdown Shakespeare

Gemma Kate Allred is a doctoral researcher at the Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Benjamin Broadribb is a doctoral researcher at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. Erin Sullivan is Reader in Shakespeare at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

Introduction: Cultural Cartography of The Digital Lockdown Landscape
Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

Part One: Analyses
1. The Screen Language of Lockdown: Connection and Choice in Split-Screen Performance John Wyver (University of Westminster, London, UK)

2. Lockdown Shakespeare and the Metamodern Sensibility Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

3. Notions of Liveness in Lockdown Performance Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

4. Creation Theatre and Big Telly’s The Tempest: Digital Theatre and the Performing Audience Pascale Aebischer and Rachael Nicholas (University of Exeter, UK)

5. Immersion in a Time of Distraction: ‘The Under Presents: Tempest’ Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

6. What You Will in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring the Digital Arts, Race and Flexible Resistance David Sterling Brown (Trinity College, Connecticut, USA ) and Ben Crystal (The Shakespeare Ensemble, Global)

Part Two: Case Studies
7. ‘Shakespeare for Everyone’ The Show Must Go Online in conversation with Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

8. Ricardo II: una producción bilingüe de Merced Shakespearefest William Wolfgang (University of Warwick, UK) and Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

9. ‘Your play needs no excuse’ CtrlAltRepeat in conversation with Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

10. ‘Are we all met?’: Responding to Shakespeare’s Canon through Online Community Performance Jennifer Moss Waghorn, Katrin Bauer, Sarah Hodgson, Diane Lowman, Kathryn Twigg and Martin Wiggins (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

11. ‘Present fears are less than horrible imaginings’ Big Telly Theatre Company in conversation with Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

12. Teaching Shakespearean Performance in Lockdown Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Sarah Hatchuel (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France) and Yu Umemiya (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) in conversation with Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

Part Three:
Lockdown Digital Arts: An Extended Year in Review
Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Benjamin Broadribb and Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)
I. Spring
II. Summer
III. Autumn
IV. Winter / Spring

Conclusion: Shakespeare after Lockdown
Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

Notes
Index