Shakespeare on the Global Stage
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-4725-2033-3 (ISBN)
This collection explores the cultural forces at play in the construction, use and reception of Shakespeare during the 2012 Olympic Moment, considering what his presence says about culture, politics and identity in twenty-first century British and global life.
Paul Prescott is Reader in English at the University of Warwick, UK. Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Paul Prescott and Erin Sullivan
1: Shakespeare and the Dream of Olympism
Paul Prescott
2: Two Poems from the Olympic Year
Kapka Kassabova
3: Performing Shakespeare in the Olympic Year: Interviews with Three Practitioners
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Tom Bird
Tracy Irish
4: States of the Nations: Henry VI, the London Olympics and the Spectacular City
Stuart Hampton-Reeves
5: Shakespeare in the North: Regionalism, Culture and Power
Adam Hansen and Monika Smialkowska
6: Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the ‘Olympic Spirit’
Stephen Purcell
7: Expert Spectatorship and Intra-Audience Relationships at Globe to Globe 2012
Rose Elfman
8: ‘Mind the gap’: Globalism, Postcolonialism and Making up Africa in the Cultural Olympiad
Colette Gordon
9: A Tale of Two Londons: Locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012
Peter Kirwan and Charlotte Mathieson
10: 1948/2012: Building Nations
Tony Howard
11: Olympic Shakespeare and the Idea of Legacy: Culture, Capital and the Global Future
Erin Sullivan
Afterword
Kathleen McLuskie
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.1.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 499 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4725-2033-5 / 1472520335 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4725-2033-3 / 9781472520333 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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