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Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Through nineteen Shakespeare plays Manea sketches the intellectual parameters the visual languages and the emotional worlds of imagined stage interpretations of each; these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay ‘Confessions ’ an autobiographical meditation on the nature of theatre and the role of the director. This captivating book which will be attractive to anyone interested in Shakespeare and modern theatre.

GBP 19.99
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Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare

Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare

Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare’s plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice. Each chapter is devoted to a specific guideline demonstrating through examples how it can be applied to pieces of text from Shakespeare’s First Folio how it creates blocking and stage business and how it enhances story clarity. Once the guidelines have been established practical means of production are discussed providing the reader with sufficient step-by-step instruction to prepare for Unrehearsed performances. This book is written for the actor and performer. | Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare

GBP 35.99
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Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum

Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum

First published in 1991 Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum provides a context for debates about the place of Shakespeare within the English curriculum in the 1990s and examines the possibilities in teaching Shakespeare afforded by the application of contemporary critical approaches such as communication cultural and gender studies in the classroom and seminar room. The collection will be of particular to interest to sixth-form students secondary school teachers teacher trainers and students and lecturers in further and higher education.

GBP 105.00
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Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries this collection of essays by Tom McAlindon combines a number of previously published pieces with original studies. The volume includes six interpretative studies all but one of which involve challenges to radical readings of the plays involved including Henry V Coriolanus The Tempest and Doctor Faustus. The other three essays are critiques of the claims and methods of radical postmodernist criticism (new historicism and cultural materialism especially); they illustrate the author's conviction that some leading scholars in the field of Renaissance literature and drama who deserve credit for shifting attention to new areas of interest must also be charged with responsibility for a marked decline in standards of analysis interpretation and argument. Likely to provoke considerable debate this stimulating collection is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies. | Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

GBP 46.99
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Shakespeare in the Present Political Lessons under Biden

Shakespeare in the Present Political Lessons under Biden

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America. It looks at American politics through the lens of Shakespeare not simply equating figures in the contemporary world to Shakespearean characters but showing how the broader conditions of Shakespeare’s imagined worlds reflect and inform our own. Clearly written in a direct and engaging style it shows that reading Shakespeare with our contemporary Washington in mind can enrich our understanding of both his works and our world. Shakespeare wrote for his own time but we always read him in our present. As such the way we read him now is always affected by our own understanding of our own political world. This book provides quick critical analyses of Shakespeare’s plays and contemporary American politics while serving as an introduction for undergraduates and general readers to this kind of topical presentist criticism of Shakespeare. | Shakespeare in the Present Political Lessons under Biden

GBP 44.99
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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface provides a ground-breaking investigation into media-specific spaces where Shakespeare is experienced. While such operations may be largely invisible to the average reader or viewer the interface properties of books screens and stages profoundly mediate our cognitive engagement with Shakespeare. This volume considers contemporary debates and questions including how mobile devices mediate the experience of Shakespeare; the impact of rapidly evolving virtual reality technologies and the interface architectures which condition Shakespearean plays; and how design elements of hypertext menus and screen navigation operate within internet Shakespeare spaces. Charting new frontiers this diverse collection delivers fresh insight into human–computer interaction and user-experience theory cognitive ecology and critical approaches such as historical phenomenology. This volume also highlights the application of media and interface design theory to questions related to the medium of the play and its crucial interface with the body and mind.

GBP 205.00
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Unearthing Shakespeare Embodied Performance and the Globe

Unearthing Shakespeare Embodied Performance and the Globe

What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare? Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider what the Globe today’s replica of Shakespeare’s theatre can contribute to a practical understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Valerie Clayman Pye reconsiders the material evidence of Early Modern theatre-making presenting clear accessible discussions of historical theatre practice; stages and staging; and the relationship between actor and audience. She relays this into a series of training exercises for actors at all levels. From Shakesball and Telescoping to Elliptical Energy Training and The Radiating Box this is a rich set of resources for anyone looking to tackle Shakespeare with authenticity and confidence. | Unearthing Shakespeare Embodied Performance and the Globe

GBP 35.99
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Shakespeare and Terrorism

Shakespeare and Terrorism

Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare – whether they’ve attacked him or been inspired by him – and investigates what the playwright and his works can tell us about the nature psychology and consequences of terror. Literary critic and historian Islam Issa takes readers on a journey from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon and London to a variety of locations: from Western Europe to the Balkans to the US from North Africa to the Persian Gulf to Central Asia and from the theatre to the digital world. Considering incidents from Shakespeare’s time through today including the Gunpowder Plot and 9/ 11 as well as pivotal figures from Hamlet and Macbeth to Hitler and Bin Laden this book brings to light new ideas about key characters events and themes both in Shakespeare’s plays and the world around them. A thrilling and accessible read this ground-breaking book will enlighten and engage students researchers and general readers interested in Shakespeare social sciences history and the complex relationships between life and art.

GBP 19.99
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The Shakespeare Masterclasses

The Shakespeare Masterclasses

The Shakespeare Masterclasses is a collection of rare interviews from many of the world’s most renowned Shakespearean actors exploring their varied approaches to topics including character creation script analysis acting for the stage and the camera rehearsal preparation and collaboration. Ron Destro’s insightful and revealing conversations with thirteen accomplished artists provide the reader with the invaluable experience of sitting in the classroom with each of these masters. A selection of Shakespeare plays including Hamlet The Winter’s Tale King Lear and The Tempest are examined to explore antithesis line-endings rhyme and meter method acting and the artistry of a good director. In addition to critical analysis of their vocation the actors weave through personal and humorous anecdotes and favorite acting moments and offer useful movement and vocal exercises. This book offers a lens into the creative process of world-acclaimed actors to expose an abundance of tips tools and fascinating stories about the acting profession that will be of crucial interest to acting students directors drama teachers Shakespeare performance scholars and general theatre fans more broadly.

GBP 31.99
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Shakespeare & Company When Action is Eloquence

Shakespeare & Company When Action is Eloquence

Shakespeare Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox Massachusetts by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater with the transformative power of Shakespeare’s language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What’s his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company’s aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material – including notebooks lectures interviews rehearsal diaries – and the Company’s newly collated archive this book provides insight into a working theatre company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details: Shakespeare Company’s founding and early history Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre’s principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and Movement; Clown; Fight; and Actor/Audience Relationship Vocational components of its Training Intensives Practical pedagogy of its Educatio programs Insights into its unique approaches to Performance Impact and legacy of its three lifetime founding members: Dennis Krausnick (Director of Training) Kevin G. Coleman (Director of Education) and Tina Packer (founding artistic director). Actors directors students educators scholars and theatre-lovers alike will find practical acting strategies inspirational approaches to theatre making and lively insights into the sustaining of a unique and robust theatre company that has been thriving for over 40 years. | Shakespeare & Company When Action is Eloquence

GBP 31.99
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Reflections From Shakespeare A Series of Lectures

Reflections From Shakespeare A Series of Lectures

Originally published in 1926 this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players. Through her work as a producer the author gained a deeper knowledge of a number of Shakespeare’s plays and in order to support her work gave a number of lectures on Women in Shakespeare. This title was perhaps the first book by a woman of the profession appealing to the public for a larger and deeper understanding of Shakespeare: the man his life and that group of tragedies in which he fathomed Hell then scaled the Heavens. | Reflections From Shakespeare A Series of Lectures

GBP 27.99
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Hermeneutic Shakespeare

Hermeneutic Shakespeare

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition providing insight into the foundations theories and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare. Central to this research this volume investigates fundamental questions including: what is philosophical hermeneutics why philosophical hermeneutics what do literary and cultural hermeneutics do and in what ways can literary and cultural hermeneutics benefit the interpretation of Shakespearean plays? Hermeneutic Shakespeare guides the reader through two main discussions. Beginning with the understanding of Philosophical Hermeneutics and the general principles of literary and cultural hermeneutics the volume includes philosophers such as Friedrich Ast Daniel Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey as well as Ludwig Wittgenstein Martin Heidegger Hans-Georg Gadamer and more recently Steven Connor. Part Two of this volume applies universal principles of philosophical hermeneutics to explicate the historical philosophical acquired and applied literary interpretations through the critical practices of Shakespeare’s plays or their adaptations including Henry V The Merchant of Venice Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors. Aimed at scholars and students alike this volume aims to contribute to contemporary understanding of Shakespeare and literature hermeneutics. Chapters 2 5 and 6 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Funded by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

GBP 120.00
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Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project. Showcasing the cultural politics of British imperialism this volume focuses on six early nationalist writers and their engagement with Shakespeare: Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Hemchandra Bandopadhay (1838–1903) Girishchandra Ghosh (1844–1912) Purnachandra Basu (1844–unknown) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bankimchandra Chattopadhaya(1838–1894) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and a host of prominent writers of cultural politics nationalism and Indian history this interdisciplinary approach combines postcolonial studies and Shakespeare studies in an attempt to reconcile the existence of an unbridled admiration for an English cultural icon in India alongside the rise of nationalism and a fierce resistance to British rule. The book finally moves to re-explore Shakespeare's position in academic political and popular nationalist discourses in postcolonial India. | Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

GBP 130.00
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Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte Play by Play

Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte Play by Play

Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte examines the ongoing influence of commedia dell’arte on Shakespeare’s plays. Exploring the influence of commedia dell’arte improvisation sight gags and wordplay on the development of Shakespeare’s plays Artemis Preeshl blends historical research with extensive practical experience to demonstrate how these techniques might be applied when producing some of Shakespeare's best-known works today. Each chapter focuses on a specific play from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to The Winter’s Tale drawing out elements of commedia dell’arte style in the playscripts and in contemporary performance. Including contemporary directors’ notes and interviews with actors and audience members alongside Elizabethan reviews criticism and commentary Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte presents an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Renaissance theatre. | Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte Play by Play

GBP 36.99
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The Shakespearean International Yearbook 19: Special Section Shakespeare and Refugees

The Shakespearean International Yearbook 19: Special Section Shakespeare and Refugees

Publishing its nineteenth volume The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time across the whole spectrum of his literary output. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field from both hemispheres of the globe. New trends are evaluated from the point of view of established scholarship and emerging work in the field is encouraged. Each issue includes a special section under the guidance of a specialist Guest Editor along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture this annual publication captures from year to year current and developing thought in Shakespeare scholarship and theater practice worldwide. There is a particular emphasis on Shakespeare studies in global contexts. | The Shakespearean International Yearbook 19: Special Section Shakespeare and Refugees

GBP 38.99
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Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare ‘All the World’s His Stage’

Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare ‘All the World’s His Stage’

This volume critically analyses and theorises Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare. It interrogates Shakespeare’s ‘universality’ from Asian perspectives: how this has been modified or even replaced by the ‘global bard’ as a recognisable brand and how Asian Shakespeares have contributed to or subverted this process by both facilitating the worldwide dissemination of the bard’s plays and challenging and resisting the very templates through which they become globally legible. Critically acclaimed Asian productions have prominently figured at premier Western festivals and popular Asian appropriations like Bollywood manga and anime have created new kinds of globally accessible Shakespeare. Essays in this collection engage with the emergent critical issues: the efficacy of definitions of the ‘local’ ‘global’ ‘transnational’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ and of the liminalities and mobilities in between. They further examine the politics of ‘West’ and ‘East’ the evolving markers of the ‘Asian’ and the equation of the ‘glocal’ with the ‘Asian’; they attend to performance and archiving protocols and bring the current debates on translation appropriation and world literature to speak to the concerns of global and transnational Shakespeare. These investigations analyse recent innovative Asian theatre productions popular cinematic and manga appropriations and the increasing presence of Shakespeare in the Asian digital sphere. They provide an Asian standpoint and lens in rereading the processes of cultural globalisation and the mobilisation of Shakespeare. | Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare ‘All the World’s His Stage’

GBP 35.99
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Shakespeare in Hate Emotions Passions Selfhood

Shakespeare in Hate Emotions Passions Selfhood

Hate malice rage and enmity: what would Shakespeare’s plays be without these demonic unruly passions? This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare’s art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits of our selfhood. Everyone knows Shakespeare to be the exemplary poet of love but how many celebrate his clarifying expressions of hatred? How many of us do not at some time feel that we have come away from his plays transformed by hate and washed clean by savage indignation? Saval fills the great gap in the interpretation of Shakespeare’s unsocial feelings. The book asserts that emotions as Aristotle claims in the Rhetoric are connected to judgments. Under such a view hatred and rage in Shakespeare cease to be a blinding of judgment or a loss of reason but become claims upon the world that can be evaluated and interpreted. The literary criticism of anger and hate provides an alternative vision of the experience of Shakespeare’s theater as an intensification of human experience that takes us far beyond criticism’s traditional contexts of character culture and ethics. The volume which is alive to the judgmental character of emotions transforms the way we see the rancorous passions and the disorderly and disobedient demands of anger and hatred. Above all it reminds us why Shakespeare is the exemplary creator of that rare yet pleasurable thing: a good hater. | Shakespeare in Hate Emotions Passions Selfhood

GBP 38.99
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Fascinating Rhythms Shakespeare Theory Culture and the Legacy of Terence Hawkes

Fascinating Rhythms Shakespeare Theory Culture and the Legacy of Terence Hawkes

As one of the most adventurous literary and cultural critics of his generation Terence Hawkes’ contributions to the study of Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory have been immense. His work has been instrumental in effecting a radical shift in the study of Shakespeare and of literary studies. This collection of essays by some of his closest colleagues friends peers and mentees begins with an introduction by John Drakakis outlining the profound impact that Hawkes’ work had on various areas of literary studies. It also includes a poem by Christopher Norris who worked with Hawkes for many years at the University of Cardiff as well as work on translation social class the historicist and presentist exploration of Shakespearean texts and teaching Shakespeare in prisons. The volume features essays by former students who have gone on to establish reputations in areas beyond the study of literature and who have contributed ground-breaking volumes to the pioneering New Accents series. It concludes with Malcolm Evans’ innovative account of the migration of semiotics into the area of business. This book is a vibrant and informative read for anyone interested in Hawkes’ unique blend of literary and cultural theory criticism Shakespeare studies and presentism. | Fascinating Rhythms Shakespeare Theory Culture and the Legacy of Terence Hawkes

GBP 34.99
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The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy

Iago’s ‘I am not what I am’ epitomises how Shakespeare’s work is rich in philosophy from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self the notions of being and identity and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others. Shakespeare’s plays and poems address subjects including ethics epistemology metaphysics philosophy of mind and social and political philosophy. They also raise major philosophical questions about the nature of theatre literature tragedy representation and fiction. The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy is the first major guide and reference source to Shakespeare and philosophy. It examines the following important topics:What roles can be played in an approach to Shakespeare by drawing on philosophical frameworks and the work of philosophers?What can philosophical theories of meaning and communication show about the dynamics of Shakespearean interactions and vice versa?How are notions such as political and social obligation justice equality love agency and the ethics of interpersonal relationships demonstrated in Shakespeare’s works?What do the plays and poems invite us to say about the nature of knowledge belief doubt deception and epistemic responsibility?How can the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters behave illuminate existential issues concerning meaning absurdity death and nothingness?What might Shakespeare’s characters and their actions show about the nature of the self the mind and the identity of individuals?How can Shakespeare’s works inform philosophical approaches to notions such as beauty humour horror and tragedy?How do Shakespeare’s works illuminate philosophical questions about the nature of fiction the attitudes and expectations involved in engagement with theatre and the role of acting and actors in creating representations? The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy is essential reading for students and researchers in aesthetics philosophy of literature and philosophy of theatre as well as those exploring Shakespeare in disciplines such as literature and theatre and drama studies. It is also relevant reading for those in areas of philosophy such as ethics epistemology and philosophy of language.

GBP 42.99
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Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Better than New

Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Better than New

In Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Matthew Biberman analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in order to identify and illustrate how both social mores and basic human psychology have changed in Anglo-American culture. Biberman contests the received wisdom that Shakespeare’s characters reflect essentially timeless truths about human nature. To the contrary he points out that Shakespeare’s characters sometimes act and think in ways that have become either stigmatized or simply outmoded. Through his study of the adaptations Biberman pinpoints aspects of Shakespeare’s thinking about behavior and psychology that no longer ring true because circumstances have changed so dramatically between his time and the time of the adaptation. He shows how the adaptors’ changes reveal key differences between Shakespeare’s culture and the culture that then supplanted it. These changes once grasped reveal retroactively some of the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters do not act and think as we might expect them to act and think. Thus Biberman counters Harold Bloom’s claim that Shakespeare fundamentally invents our sense of the human; rather he argues our sense of the human is equally bound up in the many ways that modern culture has come to resist or outright reject the behavior we see in Shakespeare’s plays. Ultimately our current sense of 'the human' is bound up not with the adoption of Shakespeare’s psychology perhaps but its adaption-or in psychoanalytic terms its repression and replacement. | Shakespeare Adaptation Psychoanalysis Better than New

GBP 39.99
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Shakespeare and Emotional Expression Finding Feeling through Colour

Shakespeare and Emotional Expression Finding Feeling through Colour

Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama. The book is significant in its scope and originality as it uses the innovative medium of colour terms and references to interrogate the early modern emotional register. By examining contextual and cultural influences this work explores the impact these influences have on the relationship between colour and emotion and argues for the importance of considering chromatic references as a means to uncover emotional significances. Using a broad range of documents it offers a wider understanding of affective expression in the early modern period through a detailed examination of several dramatic works. Although colour meanings fluctuate by paying particular attention to contextual clues and the historically specific cultural situations of Shakespeare’s plays this book uncovers emotional significances that are not always apparent to modern audiences and readers. Through its examination of the nexus between the history of emotions and the social and cultural uses of colour in early modern drama Shakespeare and Emotional Expression adds to our understanding of the expressive and affective possibilities in Shakespearean drama. | Shakespeare and Emotional Expression Finding Feeling through Colour

GBP 38.99
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How and Why We Teach Shakespeare College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students

How and Why We Teach Shakespeare College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The collection is divided into four sections: studying the text as a script for performance; exploring Shakespeare by performing; implementing specific techniques for getting into the plays; and working in different classrooms and settings. The contributors offer a rich variety of topics including: working with cues in Shakespeare such as line and mid-line endings that lead to questions of interpretation seeing Shakespeare’s stage directions and the Elizabethan playhouse itself as contributing to a play’s meaning using the gamified learning model or cue-cards to get into the text thinking of the classroom as a rehearsal playing the Friar to a student’s Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet teaching Shakespeare to inner-city students or in a country torn by political and social upheavals. For fellow instructors of Shakespeare the contributors address their own philosophies of teaching the relation between scholarship and performance and—perhaps most of all—why in this age the study of Shakespeare is so important. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | How and Why We Teach Shakespeare College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students

GBP 22.99
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Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

This book first published in 1985 explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First describing the stage’s physical impact Ralph Berry then goes on to explore the social or tribal consciousness of the audience in certain plays. The title finishes by examining the masque – the salient form of the Jacobean theatre. This title will be of interest to students of literature and theatre studies. | Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

GBP 35.99
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