A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance [Paperback]

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• Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies.
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• Considers performance in a range of media, including in print, in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video, in multimedia and digital forms.
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• Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry in Shakespeare and performance.
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• Raises questions about the dynamic interplay between Shakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performance and performance studies.
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• Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers, and professional theatre makers.

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xvi

Introduction: A Kind of History 1
Barbara Hodgdon

Part I Overviews: Terms of Performance 11

1 Reconstructing Love: King Lear and Theatre Architecture 13
Peggy Phelan

2 Shakespeare’s Two Bodies 36
Peter Holland

3 Ragging Twelfth Night: 1602, 1996, 2002–3 57
Bruce R. Smith

4 On Location 79
Robert Shaughnessy

5 Where is Hamlet? Texlƒ}