Shakespeare in Performance [Paperback]

This collection of modern essays by leading figures in the field of Shakespeare scholarship reveals the rich interplay between contemporary theoretical approaches - psychoanalytic, new historicist, feminist and cultural materialist - and the study of the play in performance, both in Shakespeare's time and our own. Examining the representation of power, ideology, class, race and gender in a wide range of playtexts and theatrical contexts, the essays explore Shakespeare's performance possibilities in theory and in practice.

Introduction; R. Shaughnessy.- Stage Space and the Shakespeare Experience; J. L. Styan.- The Arrow in Nessus: Elizabethan Clues and Modern Detectives; A. C. Dessen.- The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism; W. B. Worthen.- Bifold Authority in Shakespeare's Theatre; R. Weimann.- 'To Represent such a Lady'; K. McLuskie.- Text and Performance: The Taming of the Shrew; G. Holderness.- Race and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello; M. D. Bristol.- Royal Shakespeare: Theatre and the Making of Ideology; A. Sinfield.- Robert Lepage's Intercultural Dream Machine; B. Hodgdon.- Acting against Bardom: Some Utopian Thoughts on Workshops; S. Shepherd.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Principal Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton.Looks at Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of performance studies as well as literary studies
Contains a broad range of essays by leading figures in the field
Addresses Shakespeare's plays in a variety of contexts and using a variety of theoretical standpoints