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Performing Restoration Shakespeare
  • Edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Claude Fretz, Richard Schoch
  • Published online:
    28 January 2023
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023
  • Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714), drawing on the expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - importantly - theatre and music practitioners. The volume advances methodological debates in theatre studies and musicology by advocating an alternative to performance practices aimed at reviving 'original' styles or conventions, adopting a dialectical process that situates past performances within their historical and aesthetic contexts, and then using that understanding to transform them into new performances for new audiences. By deploying these methodologies, the volume invites scholars from different disciplines to understand Restoration Shakespeare on its own terms, discarding inhibiting preconceptions that Restoration Shakespeare debased Shakespeare's precursor texts. It also equips scholars and practitioners in theatre and music with new - and much needed - methods for studying and reviving past performances of any kind, not just Shakespearean ones.

  • Introduction: New Shakespeare for a New Era

  • Edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, New York, Claude Fretz, Sun Yat-sen University, China, Richard Schoch, Queen's University Belfast
  • Book:
    Performing Restoration Shakespeare
    Published online:
    28 January 2023
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    The Introduction explains the volume’s scope, material to be investigated, research questions to be pursued and methods to be deployed. Additionally, it situates the book within current scholarship on Shakespeare in performance, theatre history and historical musicology. In doing so, it underlines the volume’s distinctiveness in (i) topic: the first edited collection devoted to Restoration Shakespeare in performance (ii) interdisciplinary methods: the volume integrates archival and practice-led research, embracing Shakespeare studies, theatre history and historical musicology (iii) contributors: chapters are written not just by scholars but also by leading practitioners in music and theatre. We also emphasise how the volume serves as the main publication record for the insights developed during our AHRC-funded project ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’ (2017-2020).

  • Chapter 10 - Syncopated Time: Staging the Restoration Tempest

  • Edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, New York, Claude Fretz, Sun Yat-sen University, China, Richard Schoch, Queen's University Belfast
  • Book:
    Performing Restoration Shakespeare
    Published online:
    28 January 2023
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 180-198

  • Summary

    In 2017, as part of the research project ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’, the editors led a research team of scholars and artists in discussing, workshopping, rehearsing, and performing scenes and songs from Thomas Shadwell’s 1674 operatic revision of Davenant and Dryden’s The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. This chapter offers reflections on how scholar-artist collaboration in performing Restoration Shakespeare has functioned as sustained moments of what Rebecca Schneider (following Gertrude Stein) has called ‘syncopated time’ – in this instance, a collision of archival past and embodied present, in which each dimension punctured the other. Reflecting on their practice-based research, the authors propose that what can emerge through such syncopations are performance-generated insights that neither the recorded past nor the embodied present could fully apprehend on its own.

A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance

A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance
  • From the Restoration to the Twenty-First Century
  • Richard Schoch
  • Published online:
    19 April 2021
    Print publication:
    13 May 2021
  • This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. Written for both the advanced student and the practicing scholar, this work enables readers to situate themselves historically in the broad field of Shakespeare performance studies and equips them with analytical tools and conceptual frameworks for making their own contributions to the field.

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