New directions for Renaissance drama and performance studies

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"This collection asks pressing questions about how and why we study performances of Renaissance drama, challenging prevailing views and suggesting new methodologies for the field. How does an emphasis on Shakespeare limit us? What can we learn from non-traditional theatre? Why should we rethink the value of studying what happens onstage?"--

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Palgrave Macmillan
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English

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New directions for Renaissance drama and performance studies
2010, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors
Introduction: What can Performance Do For Us?; S.Werner
PART I: WORKING WITH THE EPHEMERAL
One Piece at a Time; R.Shaughnessy
Replaying Early Modern Performances; W.N.West
Acts of Seizure: A Theatrical Poetics of Metonymy and Metaphor; C.Cobb
PART II: BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES
Page and Stage Again: Rethinking Renaissance Character Phenomenologically; A.J.Hartley
Original Practices and Revolutionary Nostalgia; P.Menzer
Spreading the Shakespeare Gospel, or, The Missionary Position in Modern Performance Criticism; J.Lopez
PART III: RESITUATING SHAKESPEARE
Performance Criticism Without Performance: The Study of Non-Shakespearean Drama; G.Love
Performing Relevance: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama on the Modern Stage; E.Smith
Shakespeare and Our Contemporaries; B.Escolme
'Ay, there's the rub': Race and Performance Studies; A.Thompson
Afterword: Performing the 'Live': Cinema, Simulation, and the Death of the Real in Alex Cox's Revengers' Tragedy; C.Lehmann
Index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
792.9/5
Library of Congress
PR3091 .N49 2010, PN849.G74PN2000-PN33

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL24081030M
ISBN 13
9780230205307
LCCN
2010007412
OCLC/WorldCat
298778314

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