Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare
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2021
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-23947-0 (ISBN)
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-23947-0 (ISBN)
Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decades, this study addresses how Shakespeare's child characters are reflected, refracted and reinterpreted in performance. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates close reading, semiotics, childhood studies, queer theory and performance studies, Gemma Miller explores how a close analysis of Shakespeare’s child characters, both in the text and in performance, can reveal often uncomfortable truths about contemporary ideas of childhood, as well as offer fresh insights into the plays.
Among the works and productions analysed are stage productions of Richard III by Sean Holmes and Thomas Ostermeier; Jamie Lloyd’s and Michael Boyd’s stage productions of Macbeth and the films of Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel; Deborah Warner’s stage production of Titus Andronicus and filmed adaptations by Jane Howell and Julie Taymor; and stage productions of The Winter's Tale by Nicholas Hytner, and by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford, and the ballet adaptation by Christopher Wheeldon.
Among the works and productions analysed are stage productions of Richard III by Sean Holmes and Thomas Ostermeier; Jamie Lloyd’s and Michael Boyd’s stage productions of Macbeth and the films of Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel; Deborah Warner’s stage production of Titus Andronicus and filmed adaptations by Jane Howell and Julie Taymor; and stage productions of The Winter's Tale by Nicholas Hytner, and by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford, and the ballet adaptation by Christopher Wheeldon.
Gemma Miller teaches in the English Department at King’s College London, at Ithaca College London Centre, Tufts in London, and for Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, UK.
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
From the facsimile page to the plastic princes: the effacement of childhood in Richard III
Chapter 2
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’: The janus-faced child in Macbeth
Chapter 3
‘Behold the child’: the burden of futurity in Titus Andronicus
Chapter 4
‘No age’: disappearing childhood in The Winter's Tale
Conclusion
Performing childhood: Shakespeare and beyond
References
Notes
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.11.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 16 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 286 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-23947-X / 135023947X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-23947-0 / 9781350239470 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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